The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 1/16/26

Good morning kids. So, President Trump has ordered a carrier strike group, spearheaded by the USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed to the Middle East in response to the growing desperation of the Mullahs and their brutal repression of the anti-regime protests that might very well see the Islamic reign of terror at long last come to an end. Considering the Lincoln is off the Philippine Islands, it will take about a week before it can reach a position to conduct operations against Iran.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent noted that:

. . .senior Iranian officials are funneling their money out of the country like "rats fleeing the ship," amid escalating protests and financial unrest inside the Islamic Republic."We are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship. Because we can see tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country—snuck out of the country—by the Iranian leadership. So they are abandoning ship," Bessent said Wednesday on Newsmax.

As long as we're contemplating military action against repressive violent tyrants,, I'd rather see a carrier battle group sail up the Mississippi and conduct operations against Minneapolis.

As Tim Walz Encourages Resistance, Minnesota ‘ICE Watch’ Declares ‘Time Is Ripe To Embrace Militancy’ — The "ICE Watch" group at the center of the unruly demonstrations gripping Minneapolis urged supporters to "embrace militancy" and escalate their demands "by any means necessary." Hours later, Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) also encouraged residents to resist ICE, accusing the agency of carrying out a "campaign of organized brutality."
MN ICE Watch, which describes itself as an "autonomous collective documenting & resisting against ICE, police, & all colonial militarized regimes," shared an Instagram post on Wednesday teaching agitators how to relay "information on police and/or fascist" activity at demonstrations.

Millions funneled out of the country. Compared to the Somalis, the Mullahs are penny-ante operators, since the former have grifted billions!

The Minnesota Department of Human Services or the Minnesota Department of Education could not have grown that fast on their own, but what they were really doing wasn’t offering new programs announced by Walz, but managing disbursements to politically connected nonprofits, like the ones involved in the scam, which were able to threaten their personnel with the wrath of Attorney General Keith X. Ellison and other local and state officials if they objected to anything.
While Gov. Tim Walz and other officials claimed that they were implementing ‘programs’, what they were actually doing was building political piggy banks for their allies. Fraud was baked in because the real purpose of outsourcing what were supposed to be government programs to third parties was to subsidize the ‘community groups’ that turn out voters for their campaigns.
The nationwide networks of community groups are really a voter outreach and turnout operation for the Democratic Party funded with taxpayer money. For an example of how that worked, consider the role that one single non-profit played in the political careers of Kamala Harris, the former vice president, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely presidential candidate.

Hey, you don't have to be no William Allen White from Emporia KS to know that the aforementioned "ICE Watch" and probably every other crackpot anti-American commie front group is getting tons of taxpayer dough re mi in exchange for fomenting revolution and of course election thievery! Well you can't get the former without first getting the latter, nein?

“I think there are some reasonable members, but basically it will be cutting off again that, you know, constant flow of money that they’ve used to purchase votes through the years,” she told Marlow, “but the attention that the Minnesota fraud scandal has gotten has really given us legs once again. So it will put some of them in a very difficult position, but it’s absolutely necessary to do this.”

How much longer are we going to put up with this?!

A grinning anti-ICE agitator was arrested after she allegedly punched a Florida state trooper during a confrontation with federal agents — drawing a blunt warning from Gov. Ron DeSantis that the Sunshine State “is not Minneapolis.” Jennifer Cruz was arrested outside Mi Pueblo, a Mexican grocery store and meat market in Jacksonville, Tuesday morning after she allegedly jumped out of her car and punched a state trooper in the face while officers were working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a post on X. “Jennifer disagrees with immigration enforcement and decided to commit a few felonies by getting out of her car and punching a trooper in the face,” Uthmeier wrote.

Unlike the infamous Michael Brown of Hands Up Don't Shoot mythology, who slugged police officer Darren Wilson in the face while resisting arrest by attempting to take his gun and shoot the policeman rather than get arrested, and the rest as they say is history - - this filthy degenerate slag just cold-cocked a cop in the face because she knew she could get away with it, despite her fellow Democrat stormtrooper Renee Good getting ventilated last week. After that, law enforcement officers know that they face extermination if they dare do the unthinkable and defend themselves.

It's gotten to the point where Leftists and their mediawhore propagandists are proclaiming that law enforcement doing its job is the real crime and cause of all the violence.

I've had it. I won't be satisfied until Walz's pinhead is on a pike and the Democrat Party and its allies cease to exist or are otherwise removed from the national discourse.

Andrew Breitbart may his memory be for a blessing when he declared "Fuck You, War!" Expressed it perfectly, except the Left have been waging war against us for decades and it is high time WE THE PEOPLE resist, fight back and Win absolute victory. Amen.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

The Tina Peters case.
“The Court Cannot Punish Her For Her First Amendment Rights”
Thus, the death of someone like Scott Adams is seen just as another opportunity to attack a political enemy for a supposed litany of -isms and phobias.
Why even death doesn’t halt the media attacks on Scott Adams

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

MN ICE Watch posts guide encouraging escalation ‘by any means necessary’
As Tim Walz Encourages Resistance, Minnesota ‘ICE Watch’ Declares ‘Time Is Ripe To Embrace Militancy’
POTUS' warning comes just hours after a federal agent shot an illegal immigrant on Wednesday night.
Trump Threatens To Use Insurrection Act In Minnesota If ‘Professional Agitators’ Are Not Stopped
Trump warned he may invoke the Insurrection Act if local authorities fail to address violent anti-ICE protests effectively.
Noem Confirms She Has Spoken With Trump About Invoking Insurrection Act.
If we’re going to keep pretending that what’s happening in Minneapolis right now is simply “unrest” rather than outright violent chaos threatening to hold this country hostage, President Trump might as well hand the rest of his term over to Gavin Newsom. There’s no point left.
Resisting Law Enforcement Is Violence And This Administration’s Job Is To Stop It At All Costs
White privilege isn’t real and it won’t stop a bullet.
Renee Good Died Disproving White Privilege
The Black Panthers are back and threatening to "unalive" ICE agents in honor of the false narratives they worship, which enable them to commit more crimes. Ah, communism! Isn't it swell?
Black Panthers In Philly Threaten To *Pew, Pew* ICE Agents

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In a late-December ruling, the Eighth Circuit set an example for challenging ideological bullying in public employment.
Drawing a Legal Line on DEI Coercion

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
Jennifer Cruz was arrested outside Mi Pueblo, a Mexican grocery store and meat market in Jacksonville, Tuesday morning after she allegedly jumped out of her car and punched a state trooper in the face while officers were working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a post on X. “Jennifer disagrees with immigration enforcement and decided to commit a few felonies by getting out of her car and punching a trooper in the face,” Uthmeier wrote.
Grinning anti-ICE agitator arrested after allegedly punching Florida trooper as DeSantis warns: ‘This is not Minneapolis’
The news comes after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis when she allegedly tried to use her vehicle as a weapon and run over officers, an incident which leftist groups used to mobilize protesters, whom Brandy Shufutinsky, director of the Education and National Security Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said are “stoking the grievance industry that they built.”
Democrats Propose Anti-ICE Bills to Obstruct Crackdown on Illegal Alien Crime
It is demonstrative of how disconnected the Democrat Party is from reality at its top levels.
Democrats: ICE Is Just Like The Ayatollahs (If only they compared ICE to the Israeilis! - jjs)
ICE operations in Minnesota will continue, with Trump praising law enforcement efforts to ensure public safety.
Trump Is Praising a Biden Judge’s ICE Ruling, Here’s Why…
MeidasTouch’s actions leave federal agents at personal risk and undermine federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
Diddy/Epstein-Linked Network Tries to Dox ICE Agents LIVE on Camera.
You may not like it, but ICE enforcement is democracy in action.
Anti-ICE Activists’ Goal Isn’t Stopping Violence — It’s Ending All Immigration Enforcement

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“Birth was not enough. The American rule was no different. Contracts, by definition, are not entered into unilaterally. A lawful residence implies protection. An unlawful residence does not.Most aliens who came to the United States came to stay. Tribal members were excluded.“It was a violation of the law of nations to enter into another country illegally.”
True History of Birthright Citizenship
Perhaps the defund ICE message is playing well in solidly blue districts, but competitive district politics is a different animal.
Vulnerable Dems Throw Their Lot In With The ‘Abolish Immigration Law’ Crowd
Cui’s arrest highlights ongoing scrutiny around Chinese investment in U.S. territories and raises questions about immigration enforcement and visa policies.
ICE Just Detained This Chinese Billionaire.
IRAN ON the BRINK?!
The Lincoln will substantially boost U.S. Central Command’s offensive capabilities in the Middle East, as President Trump warns the Iranian regime that he will intervene to prevent the killing of protesters.
WAR? Trump Redeploys Carrier Strike Group to Middle East.
The Islamic Republic has killed upwards of 12,000 civilians since the popular uprising started at the end of December
Trump Admin Sanctions 'Architects of Iran’s Brutal Crackdown' in First Action Against Regime Since Protests Began
"And we are seeing it come into banks and financial institutions all over the world. And what we do at Treasury is we follow the money, whether it is through the typical banking system or through digital assets. We are going to trace these assets, and they will not be able to keep them," he continued. (Now do Soros and whoever is bankrolling insurrection in MN - jjs)
‘Rats Fleeing the Ship’: Bessent Says Iranian Leadership Is Funneling Millions Out of Country
It is not just in the best interests of the region, but in the best interests of the world that the biggest terrorist government in the world should fall. But how can it be done?
Douglas Murray: Trump has a chance to end Khamenei’s reign of terror in Iran
Fred Fleitz: Iran’s regime may endure for now, but its terror has shattered its legitimacy; with decisive U.S. support, this uprising can hasten the end and prepare a democratic future.
Irreversible Changes to Iran Caused by the Recent Protests and U.S. Interests
“The president has gone further than any American president in history by being on the side of the Iranian people."
The Fog Of Trump: How Unpredictability Keeps Iran Guessing
Islam has never served a nation well, and the Persian people have a glorious history to fall back upon. Or, put another way, anything but Islam...
New Iranian Rulers Must Embrace Their Pre-Islamic Past
Islamic monsters inflict the worst of all possible injuries.
Iranian Security Forces Firing at the Eyes and Heads of Protesters (If only Joey Sponge-Bain/Shits-pants were there to insist they aim for the legs! - jjs)
The ruthless slaughter of anti-government protesters in Iran appears to have stopped — but only because residents are being held hostage in their homes by machine gun-wielding security forces that have flooded the streets, sources told The Post Thursday. After weeks of anti-regime protests across Iran left thousands dead, the mass mobilization of security forces has suppressed the demonstrations, with many too afraid to step foot outside now. “There were tanks out — there’s tanks everywhere,” the source told The Post after speaking to family in Tehran about the current situation.
The disturbing reason Iran appears to have stopped slaughtering protesters
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
“We saw rampant fraud there, where people were actually using when they had to submit their paperwork, their photo IDs, they actually had photos of Barbie dolls as the ID,” she revealed.
Exclusive – Sen. Ernst: Congress Must Cut Fraud Financing Democrat Vote-Buying
Notably, Generation Hope MN founder Abdirahman Warsame’s older brother, Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, was arrested in 2015 for alleged preparing to move to Syria to join ISIS, a terrorist organization.
Senators Urge DOJ To Probe ISIS-Linked Somali ‘Nonprofit’ After Bro-Fo Omar Tried To Earmark $1M For It
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Lessons from the Somali fraud in Minnesota.
Stop Government Funding of Non-Profits
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
One student’s shawl stated in Arabic: “Jerusalem is Ours”.
Muslim Student Association Promotes Terror at School Cultural Fair
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Democrats and their media allies have been touting their “Affordability Agenda” strategy since their disastrous loss in November to Trump. The vague term helps paper over deep splits in the Democratic Party, such as elite support for the H-1B visa worker program that has damaged millions of Democratic-leaning college graduates.
Democrat Tom Suozzi Says Wage Gains Are Bad for ‘Affordability’
The U.S. must build, baby.
50-Year Mortgages Were Never the Answer
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Former Kew Gardens resident Charles Foehner was locked up at the Eric M Taylor Center in the Bronx for his felony gun charges stemming from the May 31, 2023, shooting, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Wednesday. The then-65-year-old was returning to his Queens Avenue apartment at around 2 a.m. after buying a pack of cigarettes when he was confronted by a menacing Cody Gonzalez. (Melinda Katz is a vile lefty shit-whore - jjs)
Charles Foehner, NYC senior citizen who fatally shot would-be mugger, begins prison sentence for weapons possession
Rocking Horse Ranch’s license was suspended, and Russell faces second-degree murder charges, with additional charges expected.
Minnesota Daycare Worker Admits to Killing Infant for ‘Attention.’
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Yeah, because you're a left-wing hack. You're not a reporter. You're posing in this room as a journalist, and it's so clear by the premise of your question. And you and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you're a journalist, you shouldn't even be sitting in that seat. But you're pretending like you're a journalist, but you're a left-wing activist. And the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias. You should be reporting on the facts.
MUST WATCH: Karoline Leavitt Destroys MSM 'Journalist' Over ICE Question
POLITICS
The otherwise excellent JD Vance, with his stubborn loyalty to the openly pro-Islamist, antisemitic Tucker Carlson, is raising doubts about his own values.
It Will Be Marco Rubio In 2028
Sheahan launched her campaign in a field that has many seeking the GOP nomination for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District. “I’m a Trump conservative running for Congress to protect American jobs, American paychecks and American values,” she said in a post on X. “No excuses. Let’s get this done,” Sheahan added.
ICE official resigns to challenge U.S. Rep. Kaptur of Ohio
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
“They want what everybody else in this world wants — just a good life."
Administration Official: “Hamas Wants Peace”(Hamas’ definition of “peace” and “the good life” is every Jew in Israel and on planet Earth dead. - jjs)
The decision could land Khalil back in immigration detention.
Federal Court Rules Against Mahmoud Khalil’s Release From ICE Detention
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
More than 20 councils, most of them Labour-controlled, are expected to ask the government for permission to cancel elections this year.
Starmer to cancel DOZENS of local elections, denying votes to millions of Britons
Jenrick’s defection signals growing discontent within the Tory Party and bolsters Reform’s standing as a government-in-waiting.
The Biggest-Ever Defection to Farage’s Reform Party Has Been Confirmed.
The seizure marks the sixth sanctioned tanker intercepted in recent weeks.
Another Venezuelan-Linked Oil Tanker Seized As U.S. Enforces Trump Blockade
we wish the never-Trumpers of the world could settle on the reason they think Donald Trump is an existential threat to the nation
And, Overnight, Trump Goes From ‘Dangerous Isolationalist’ To ‘Dangerous Imperialist’
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Leavitt outlined the president’s vision to reporters during Thursday’s White House press briefing. She stated that the first pillar is “permanently lowering prescription drug prices” by codifying Trump’s most-favored-nations deals with pharmaceutical companies.
White House Lays Out ‘Four Commonsense Pillars’ of ‘Great Healthcare Plan’
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Let me translate: We in Europe have found that our cooperative Soviet-style government-run projects with NASA (ISS, Mars Sample Return, and Lunar Gateway) are going away, and we need to find some other authoritarian nation we can partner with.
The European Space Agency and China hold the first joint meeting in almost a decade
...based on all the data MRO and other Mars orbiters have been gathering for the past decade, we are almost certainly looking at near-surface ice flowing downhill and past that peak.
Martian glacier flowing past small peak
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“The campaign includes photos and videos of participants wearing exclusive merchandise designed by award-winning fashion designer and ACLU artist ambassador Willy Chavarria,” noted Variety. “The photos were captured by artist and fashion photographer Collier Schorr and videography captured by Sundance award-winning writer and director Alessandra Lacorazza.”
WATCH: Megan Rapinoe, Elliot Page, Naomi Watts, Appear in ACLU Ad Supporting Trans Youth (the Witches of Beast-schtick - jjs)
Sen. Josh Hawley asked a simple question: "Can men get pregnant?"
Why The Left Can’t Let The Transgender Debate Go
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Before Zohran Mamdani and the Democrat Socialists of America, there were Vito Marcantonio and the American Labor Party.
A Look Back at New York City’s First Flirtation with Socialism
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: TV classic's return reveals spotty track record for show revivals
This Reboot Makes the Least Sense of All

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1

Early doctor's appointment for the wife. Have a great weekend, all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:16 AM (x0n13)

2 Very early today, J.J.

May your wife have a good appointment.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 16, 2026 06:22 AM (O7YUW)

3
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2026 06:23 AM (tljrc)

4
The European Space Agency and China hold the first joint meeting in almost a decade

The European Space Agency is the Kaboom! of astronomical exploration.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:26 AM (tgvbd)

5 Frog march ol Frogmouth.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:28 AM (vFG9F)

6 I've had it. I won't be satisfied until Walz's pinhead is on a pike and the Democrat Party and its allies cease to exist or are otherwise removed from the national discourse.

Sadly, JJ, you probably will never be satisfied then. Without a collapse of some sort, they'll never go away and the GOPe will certainly never help get rid of them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 06:30 AM (uQesX)

7 Yonder Horde

Up and at 'em...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 06:32 AM (U2OZr)

8 6 Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 06:30 AM (uQesX)

I fear you are correct, but I said what I said and that's that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:32 AM (x0n13)

9 Black Panthers In Philly Threaten To *Pew, Pew* ICE Agents

So the Black Nationalist Marxists are now going to bat for the Latino and Asian illegals?

OK, I didn't have that on the 2026 Bingo card, but whatever.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

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Actually, the European Space Agency is just like most European endeavors: mingy, undersized, struggling, yet pointed to by Europeans with unaccountable pride.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:33 AM (tgvbd)

11 We are going to trace these assets, and they will not be able to keep them," he continued.

I was wondering about that. If we see them moving money, we should just take it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 06:34 AM (uQesX)

12 Morning all. Still in the ER.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:34 AM (GK5Hx)

13 "In a late-December ruling, the Eighth Circuit set an example for challenging ideological bullying in public employment."

I only heard a minute of Errorick Erroriickson's show two days ago because that's all I can stand, but he called PDT a bully. I get the feeling that Erroriickson spent a lot of time with his head in a toilet as a teen.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

14 Dang rickb223, I hope you'll be ok.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:37 AM (vFG9F)

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*tiredly leans forward, putting forearms on desk*

Is this a Minnesota problem or a Twin Cities problem? Trump lost the state by 4 percent in 2024. Which likely means he won an honest vote. I don't think everyone there went nuts at the same time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:37 AM (tgvbd)

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Black Panthers In Philly Threaten To *Pew, Pew* ICE Agents

The Black Panthers are just a glorified crew.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:38 AM (tgvbd)

17 9 Black Panthers In Philly Threaten To *Pew, Pew* ICE Agents

So the Black Nationalist Marxists are now going to bat for the Latino and Asian illegals?

OK, I didn't have that on the 2026 Bingo card, but whatever.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

Who knew the Panthers were still around more than 60 years later?!!! Well, violent racialism pays even better than I thought.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:38 AM (x0n13)

18 Who knew the Panthers were still around more than 60 years later?!!! Well, violent racialism pays even better than I thought.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:38 AM (x0n13)

Well, the Democrat party is still around after two hundred....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 06:40 AM (uQesX)

19 12 Morning all. Still in the ER.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:34 AM (GK5Hx)

Oh no! Hope you get well and get on your way home soon!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:41 AM (x0n13)

20 Dang rickb223, I hope you'll be ok.
Posted by: fd

Some kind of severe back spasm. Been 13 hours now.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:41 AM (GK5Hx)

21 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 06:41 AM (RIvkX)

22 "Some kind of severe back spasm. Been 13 hours now.
Posted by: rickb223"

Ow. I hope you get some relief soon.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

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Hope they see you soon and can do something for you, rickb.

Last year, my shoulder was hurting so badly that I left church even before Mass started and went to the ER. Luckily it was early Sunday morning and no one was waiting.

In the examining room, they commented on how I was dressed. I replied, "Doesn't everyone come to the ER in a coat and tie?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:44 AM (tgvbd)

24 The Covid scam was the cause of much of this fraud. It was a perfect storm for the Dem. Too perfect, even.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

25 This part; MN ICE Watch, which describes itself as an MN ICE Watch, which describes itself as an "autonomous collective documenting & resisting against ICE, police, & all colonial militarized regimes,"
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Sounds authentically communist.

Neville Roy Singham, an American born billionaire living in Singapore is one individual identified as funding the anti-ICE protests. The administration might want to black bag that fucker today. The Lincoln carrier strike group is in the area. Seems like an opportunity.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 06:44 AM (U2OZr)

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"autonomous collective documenting & resisting against ICE, police, & all colonial militarized regimes,"

That's some genuine communist gibberish right there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:46 AM (tgvbd)

27 Some kind of severe back spasm. Been 13 hours now.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:41 AM (GK5Hx)

Had same thing last month. Probably not as severe as you, but everyone once in a while I couldn't move. Urgent care gave me an anti-inflammatory and it went away in a few hours. Hopefully it's something that can be solved by that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 06:46 AM (uQesX)

28 . . .senior Iranian officials are funneling their money out of the country like "rats fleeing the ship,"...
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The firmest possible sign this 47 year nightmare is to be concluded soon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 06:46 AM (RIvkX)

29 I said "cause" but it should be "enabled". Now that the fraud has been normalized it is considered by many to be a "right".

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

30 I don't know how things are these days, but when I lived in the world of academia, if you got a grant for a research project from NSF, DARPA, ARL, whoever, and you took the majority of that grant money and spent it on something else, you'd be in very, very big trouble with a capital F.

But in the world of grants for "Muh Cumyoonity", that's effectively standard practice. The Community Development Project gets 3 million from USAID. They keep half a mil and give the rest to the Development Project for Communities, who then keep their half a mil and give the rest to the Development for Community-ing Projects, who keep their half mil, and give the rest to the Wave Some Signs And Commit All The Arson Fund.

What? Our government is funding the WSSACATA? That's crazy talk. You just hate Communities.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 06:50 AM (06Hmj)

31 "As long as we're contemplating military action against repressive violent tyrants,, I'd rather see a carrier battle group sail up the Mississippi and conduct operations against Minneapolis."

Indeed. We live here and will gladly avoid the 3rd Amendment and house you ICE folks 40 miles out of town where things are Normal.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 16, 2026 06:51 AM (mNOhh)

32 rickb a prayer for complete and immediate healing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 06:52 AM (RIvkX)

33
I don't know how things are these days, but when I lived in the world of academia, if you got a grant for a research project from NSF, DARPA, ARL, whoever, and you took the majority of that grant money and spent it on something else, you'd be in very, very big trouble with a capital F

How much do universities skim off as overhead and does that percentage really reflect the departmental burden on operations? Or is it mostly to fund useless programs?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:53 AM (tgvbd)

34 ."We are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship. Because we can see tens of millions of ~~dollars~~ Obama Bucks being wired out of the country—snuck out of the country—by the Iranian leadership. So they are abandoning ship," Bessent said Wednesday on Newsmax.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 16, 2026 06:54 AM (HTCU3)

35 Hunter is not paying child support to his stripper baby mama. I wonder if he is really broke yet.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

36 At Texoma Medical Center. Big assed kidney stone. Not going home today. Dilauded onboard. Yay me.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:54 AM (GK5Hx)

37 I was getting some pretty gnarly back muscle problems a while ago and just chalked it up to being 29 for too long.

Turns out it was just the seat in my new truck wasn't adjusted well for my several hours a day I had to drive.

There's a chance your problems might just be ergonomic in nature. Car seat, office chair, anywhere you get stuck sitting in a bad position for hours on end, day after day.

Obviously not a diagnosis, just a thing to consider.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 06:56 AM (06Hmj)

38 Moronin', Hourde!

Up so early on your birthday, JJ?

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 16, 2026 06:56 AM (kmSxS)

39 36 At Texoma Medical Center. Big assed kidney stone. Not going home today. Dilauded onboard. Yay me.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:54 AM (GK5Hx)

OK, so it's not your chair then.

Unless your chair is made out of pure oxalic acid crystal.

And you nibble on it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 06:58 AM (06Hmj)

40 Its Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 06:58 AM (gbOdA)

41 How much do universities skim off as overhead and does that percentage really reflect the departmental burden on operations? Or is it mostly to fund useless programs?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:53 AM (tgvbd)
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It used to be about 50%. However, recent government regulations have reduced the cap to 15% can be skimmed off the top by the university for "administrative overhead."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 06:58 AM (ESVrU)

42 rickb, praying for you.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 16, 2026 06:59 AM (x8PQF)

43 Thank you

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:59 AM (GK5Hx)

44 Remember - all dealers that sell Desoto also sell Plymouth

Posted by: Chrysler Corporation at January 16, 2026 07:00 AM (W8kN7)

45 > don't know how things are these days, but when I lived in the world of academia, if you got a grant for a research project from NSF, DARPA, ARL, whoever, and you took the majority of that grant money and spent it on something else, you'd be in very, very big trouble with a capital F
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I worked with a bunch of scientists at a marine research lab. FedGov. They were always scamming educational facilities for grants by having grad-students sign on for a multi-year gig counting plankton or some such crap.

They'd take the money and go to "seminars" in far away places like China, Russia, obscure land-locked, third world shit holes. For discussions on marine life.

In a place 1000 miles from any ocean.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:00 AM (U2OZr)

46 Big assed kidney stone.
=====

Arming phasers!

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 16, 2026 07:00 AM (RIvkX)

47 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 16, 2026 07:00 AM (2Ez/1)

48 OK, so it's not your chair then.

Unless your chair is made out of pure oxalic acid crystal.

And you nibble on it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The nurse had just come in. But I hear you. It hit on the 2 hour drive home. Started right after I left work.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 07:01 AM (GK5Hx)

49
Big assed kidney stone.

*picks up baseball bat*

*takes aim at rickb's back*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:02 AM (tgvbd)

50 If Trump pulls back on Iran I will have lost a lot of respect for him. Act like an Obama, I'll give you what I gave Obama.

He talks too much in any case. In this case his tongue will have cost innocent lives.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:05 AM (RIvkX)

51 Never, ever look at a kidney stone under a magnifying glass.

Ouch.

Posted by: Urethra Franklin at January 16, 2026 07:05 AM (n+1Zi)

52 G'morning, all!

Kidney stones HURT like a MoFo.

Prayers for relief soon.

Sproinged my back two days ago helping a neighbor install a hanging garage rack, and then move some furniture for a church member.

Pain is beginning to subside, and I can stand up unassisted. But the transition from sitting to standing is painful.

Oh...and 21.9 degrees out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 16, 2026 07:06 AM (iMotb)

53 ICE is using tear gas in Minneapolis.
That's a shame

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 16, 2026 07:07 AM (WQDw6)

54 JJ, hope your wife's appointment goes well.

rickb hope your back issue gets attended to soon and it's got a boring cause and simple remedy.

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 16, 2026 07:08 AM (9AdGW)

55 "ICE is using tear gas in Minneapolis.
That's a shame"

Oh no!!

Anyway......

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 16, 2026 07:09 AM (iMotb)

56 Big assed kidney stone.

*picks up baseball bat*

*takes aim at rickb's back*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Had that done in 93 on the left side.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 07:09 AM (GK5Hx)

57 53 ICE is using tear gas in Minneapolis.
That's a shame
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 16, 2026 07:07 AM (WQDw6)

"Why did you have real tear gas" they whine as their buddy collapses on the floor blind and choking for air.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 07:10 AM (06Hmj)

58 Never, ever look at a kidney stone under a magnifying glass.

Ouch.
Posted by: Urethra Franklin at January 16, 2026 07:05 AM (n+1Zi)
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Especially if yours is narrow

Posted by: Hank Hill at January 16, 2026 07:11 AM (RIvkX)

59 Damn kidney stones hurt like hell! Hope they give you the good stuff and can blast that bugger!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 16, 2026 07:11 AM (9AdGW)

60 > "ICE is using tear gas in Minneapolis.
That's a shame"

Oh no!!

Anyway......
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If it's the first use.... what took them so long?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:11 AM (U2OZr)

61 Damn kidney stones hurt like hell! Hope they give you the good stuff and can blast that bugger!
Posted by: Hans O'Lo

Dilaudid. But not a lot.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 07:13 AM (GK5Hx)

62 50 If Trump pulls back on Iran I will have lost a lot of respect for him. Act like an Obama, I'll give you what I gave Obama.

He talks too much in any case. In this case his tongue will have cost innocent lives.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:05 AM (RIvkX)

I really think he's stuck trying to figure out how to help the situation without looking like he's helping the situation too much.

Any new government will be kneecapped by looking like an externally installed American puppet, so he can't come out swinging for anyone.

Any military action to support the situation directly is going to look like Regime Change Classic, which half of his base is violently allergic to.

Maralogology has rules just like Kremlinology. When Trump speaks definitively, you can usually believe it. When Trump speaks conditionally, going in circles, seeming to contradict what he's doing or says he wants to do, saying things that sound counterintuitive, it's because the world is full of newsface piranhas that he has to distract with nonsense so he can do his job.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 07:15 AM (06Hmj)

63 Because we can see tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country—snuck out of the country—by the Iranian leadership. So they are abandoning ship," Bessent said Wednesday on Newsmax.
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A couple of things:
1. That's not "sneaking." You don't "sneak" away with lights on and sirens blaring. It *might* be "fleeing," but it ain't "sneaking." Sneaking would be unmarked planes with loads of cash and jewels in the hold and mullahs upstairs, flying out as any other flight.
2. Tens of millions of dollars is a lot at retail, but not at wholesale. Somali cash mules were moving this much per month through Minneapolis on their way to more exotic locales. "Tens of millions" is either a mopping up operation (getting the last bits, which are scattered around) or individual action. What's the normal transaction volume? Is the current rate of money movement higher or lower than the pre-crisis baseline, or the early-crisis baseline?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:17 AM (GyQIQ)

64 Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 07:15 AM (06Hmj)
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I don't disagree with any of that either.

However, I hear things from the administration about Gaza, about Qatar, and about Iran that are based not on realpolitik but about "art of the deal."

Trump and his people think they can finesse the Arabs and they are wrong.

Posted by: Hank Hill at January 16, 2026 07:18 AM (RIvkX)

65 While Gov. Tim Walz and other officials claimed that they were implementing ‘programs’, what they were actually doing was building political piggy banks for their allies. Fraud was baked in because the real purpose of outsourcing what were supposed to be government programs to third parties was to subsidize the ‘community groups’ that turn out voters for their campaigns.
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Duh. This is SOP. It's all money laundering. The mistake was being so brazen and stupid about it. But what the writer here fails to realize is that this is what "implementing programs" *means.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:19 AM (GyQIQ)

66 /my urethra is wide enough thank you

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:19 AM (RIvkX)

67 Jennifer Cruz was arrested outside Mi Pueblo, a Mexican grocery store and meat market in Jacksonville, Tuesday morning after she allegedly jumped out of her car and punched a state trooper in the face while officers were working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
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Wife material, for sure. It must be just great being her kid.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:20 AM (GyQIQ)

68
ICE is using tear gas in Minneapolis.
That's a shame

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 16, 2026 07:07 AM

I voted for this

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2026 07:20 AM (tljrc)

69 ICE is using tear gas in Minneapolis.
That's a shame
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 16, 2026 07:07 AM (WQDw6)
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Pretty tame, given the rioting. We're *days* into this thing and they're just now getting to tear gas?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:22 AM (GyQIQ)

70 Pretty tame, given the rioting. We're *days* into this thing and they're just now getting to tear gas?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:22 AM (GyQIQ)
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Yeah! Where's that nosebleed ray they used in Caracas??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:23 AM (RIvkX)

71 ICE needs to get those water cannon trucks like the Dirty Frogs have. Pull up, hose down the marxists, watch them turn into a block of ice, drive off.

Posted by: Mr. Freeze at January 16, 2026 07:26 AM (n+1Zi)

72 > Pretty tame, given the rioting. We're *days* into this thing and they're just now getting to tear gas?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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I wondered about that @ #60.

I'm not sure if it was an ICE policy, DHS policy or what... regarding the use if tear gas.

IMO we're way, way past tear gas.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:27 AM (U2OZr)

73 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

74 Pretty tame, given the rioting. We're *days* into this thing and they're just now getting to tear gas?
——-

I like how “authorities” or the mayor will invoke a curfew usually several days after the mob has reduced the city center to a smoking ruin. Classic

Posted by: Chrysler Corporation at January 16, 2026 07:30 AM (W8kN7)

75 Tim Walz is a bought and paid for enemy of the state. And the Country.

He needs to rot in a third-world shithole prison amongst his somali peers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 07:30 AM (BSdIE)

76
ICE needs to get those water cannon trucks like the Dirty Frogs have. Pull up, hose down the marxists, watch them turn into a block of ice, drive off.

Posted by: Mr. Freeze at January 16, 2026 07:26 AM

endorsed

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2026 07:30 AM (tljrc)

77 The old ways are the best ways. Give them the hose.

Posted by: Jame Gumb at January 16, 2026 07:33 AM (Q+gd/)

78 You always do the most interesting mashup of photos for the morning news, JJ! Where on earth did you find that skater pic?

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:33 AM (gWBY1)

79 I like how “authorities” or the mayor will invoke a curfew usually several days after the mob has reduced the city center to a smoking ruin. Classic
Posted by: Chrysler Corporation at January 16, 2026 07:30 AM (W8kN7)
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The US has always been oddly tolerant of rioting. It's kind of our thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:34 AM (GyQIQ)

80 78 You always do the most interesting mashup of photos for the morning news, JJ! Where on earth did you find that skater pic?
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:33 AM (gWBY1)

Just a Bing search for Ice Capades

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 07:35 AM (x0n13)

81 The soldier wall of coverage out of Minneapolis is designed by our enenies to turn our attention away from Iran.

Posted by: Rip N Eead at January 16, 2026 07:35 AM (JUson)

82 >"..He needs to rot in a third-world shithole prison amongst his somali peers."

I dunno.. seeing him tossed off of a Somali rooftop with the other 'undesirables' because he backed the wrong tribe with his graft would be deeply gratifying.

Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 07:35 AM (koFAO)

83 Typo. I meant solid not soldier

Posted by: Rip N Eead at January 16, 2026 07:36 AM (JUson)

84 Also, Jasmine Crockett might just not be gaining traction in her own senate primary? A white-bread liberal man who pretends to be a sane lefty might take it? Let the pearl clutching commence.

"Democrats Dump Jasmine Crockett in Texas Senate Primary, Back Rival James Talarico Instead

Texas State Rep. James Talarico (D) has taken a clear lead over U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) in the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate, according to new polling released Thursday.

The Emerson College Polling / Nexstar Media Group survey shows Talarico ahead by nine points among likely Democrat primary voters, 47 percent to 38 percent, with 15 percent undecided. The winner will face Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in November."

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:36 AM (gWBY1)

85 The US has always been oddly tolerant of rioting. It's kind of our thing.
——-
After the 1970s. Prior to that, definitely not.

Posted by: Chrysler Corporation at January 16, 2026 07:36 AM (W8kN7)

86 Well I love it, JJ. Walz wishes his legs looked that good! And I love the morning puns.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:37 AM (gWBY1)

87 So Gavin Newsom had Ben Shapiro as a guest on his podcast.

Kudos for bravery in allowing Ben Shapiro to make a fool of you on your own show. Bravo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

88 I'm sure there are commenters here, or will be here later who can opine on the Insurrection Act and whether all the legal hoops and hurdles have been checked off to keep it's implementation from being tied up by the judicial coup.

From my limited research, it appears it has.

But I wonder if this is part of the reason the Act hasn't been implemented. At least not yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:39 AM (U2OZr)

89 So Gavin Newsom had Ben Shapiro as a guest on his podcast.

Kudos for bravery in allowing Ben Shapiro to make a fool of you on your own show. Bravo.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)
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Any prominent or effective non-communist who grants an interview to any news organization in the country goes through more hostility and continuous twisting and lying, and does it at least once a week.

Amazing, eh? A communist letting a mainstream conservative podcaster interview him is big news because it's so rare. A non-communist entering the lion's den every day isn't even notable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:40 AM (GyQIQ)

90 > "..Kudos for bravery in allowing Ben Shapiro to make a fool of you on your own show. "

To be fair, Newscum did most of the heavy lifting. Shapiro just pointed the way..

Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 07:40 AM (koFAO)

91 https://youtu.be/OSYHcZtI4-E

Very entertaining short clip

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

92 Deport Them All
Reclaim the Fraud
Arrest the Crooks

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 16, 2026 07:42 AM (HvW4E)

93 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:43 AM (77rzZ)

94
It is highly agreeable on a cold day to put on clothes warm right out of the dryer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (tgvbd)

95 It is highly agreeable on a cold day to put on clothes warm right out of the dryer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (tgvbd)
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One of life's little joys.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (GyQIQ)

96 >"..But I wonder if this is part of the reason the Act hasn't been implemented. At least not yet."

They're making mid-term ads for the GOP right now. Trump will pull the plug when they have enough footage..

Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 07:46 AM (koFAO)

97 To President Trump: Dear God, no more warnings please just invoke the insurrection act and clear out the terrorist scum in Minneapolis already. The fat gay gasbag Tim Walz needs to be arrested yesterday. Just do it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 07:48 AM (k0PcD)

98 No more, please, I'm full.

Posted by: the troll's jerksock at January 16, 2026 07:48 AM (Q+gd/)

99 No more, please, I'm full.
Posted by: the troll's jerksock at January 16, 2026 07:48 AM (Q+gd/)
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LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (GyQIQ)

100 "The Fog Of Trump: How Unpredictability Keeps Iran Guessing"

And everyone else including the globalists - emphasis on the republican establishment.

It is only unpredictability for globalists as Trump is openly retreating from the Empire and the establishment really does not like their grift being ripped from them. Take note Bank of England as you are being outfoxed by the minute.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (mNOhh)

101 Ben will all of a sudden become a moderate now and then go back on his show when Gavin runs for president and suggest that Gavin is a threat to the republic. This is a pattern with this subhuman. He always acts so reasonable with somebody worthwhile in person, and then goes back on his show and rips democrats in the most ruthless, dishonest, and mean spirited way possible.

Can't believe Ben put on the kneepads and finally worshipped at the throne of Gav. Gavin dumpsters Ben in this. Like when Ben tried to bring up immigration and sanctuary cities, Newsom just wrecked him on a factual basis.

Newsom did great! He handled Israel and Trans Issues and California bashing very well. Im even more all in on him for President. Ben said "Secretary of Defense" and not "Secretary of War" lol

MF bending over backwards for a washed up pundit I could stuff in a locker. Shapiro is literally Kirk with slightly better decorum.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (ycI94)

102 >>> The US has always been oddly tolerant of rioting. It's kind of our thing.

"Walking through town is quite scary, It's not very sensible either, A friend of a friend he got beaten, He looked the wrong way at a policeman, Would never have happened to Smeaton, An Old Leodensian

La... la, la, la, la, la
Ah... la, la, la, la, la

I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot

I tried to get to my taxi, The man in a tracksuit attacks me, He said that he saw it before me
And wants to get things a bit gory
Girls scrabble 'round with no clothes on, To borrow a pound for a condom, If it wasn't for chip fat they'd be frozen, They're not very sensible

La... la, la, la, la, la
Ah... la, la, la, la, la

I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot"

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (gWBY1)

103 Good luck rick.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (viF8m)

104 Man found guilty of lesser charges in SF death of 'Grandpa Vicha'
By Matthew Tom,
Homepage editor
Jan 15, 2026.

A 24-year-old man was acquitted of murder in the death of "Grandpa Vicha" Ratanapakdee, who died after being attacked in San Francisco in 2021. Antoine Watson, who was also charged with elder abuse, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and assault. -SFGate
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This is what passes for "justice" in this sh*thole state.

Vicha was a Thai American elder who was killed after being forcefully tackled to the ground in a random daylight attack in San Francisco in 2021.

I used to enjoy walking by his house.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

105 Well as long as they were polked about it -that's good. I am looking forward to the mudterms. Go rakify yourself a***man

Posted by: AliasJonesJones at January 16, 2026 07:51 AM (ix8EF)

106 May I suggest using your nightsticks, officers, to justly defend yourselves when crazy bints decide to step way over the line and try to punch you in the face!

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at January 16, 2026 07:52 AM (wVcYX)

107 Josh Hawley is a scumbag. That is all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 07:52 AM (ZkbES)

108 Newsom is both idiot and jackass. There's is reason that in the thousands of years of recorded human civilization parents have exerted guardianship over children - and that is to protect them, most especially from themselves.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2026 07:54 AM (+Zbod)

109 JJ can rafiky oveook the far more repression of Saudi Rabia. Then in Iran.
When will the USA decide to think America First !

In last poll 75% of Americans polked against taking Greenland

Trump is a dictator he must be stopped at the mudterms
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Absolutely adorable!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

110 >>To President Trump: Dear God, no more warnings please just invoke the insurrection act and clear out the terrorist scum in Minneapolis already. The fat gay gasbag Tim Walz needs to be arrested yesterday. Just do it

Tom Homan was on with Ingraham last night. He was smiling like the Cheshire Cat describing how every arrest they were making was helping them plot the money and leadership flow of these fake riots. He claims they already have a very good idea who is behind all of this and they plan to take appropriate action.

I'm sure it won't be enough for every head on piker but he didn't sound like he was bluffing. I think he wants payback more than we do.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:54 AM (viF8m)

111 I see JJ is having fun with ASS posts today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 07:55 AM (ZkbES)

112 Can’t believe they’re rebooting The Rockford Files. The whole “rebooting” phenomenon needs to die, now.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (77rzZ)

113 I'm sure there are commenters here, or will be here later who can opine on the Insurrection Act and whether all the legal hoops and hurdles have been checked off to keep it's implementation from being tied up by the judicial coup.

From my limited research, it appears it has.

But I wonder if this is part of the reason the Act hasn't been implemented. At least not yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:39 AM

The democrats want Trump to invoke the act, they are salivating at the thought that he might just commit political suicide for republicans and give the dems a blue wave in november by invoking the act.

Think about it, Trump finally becomes the "imperial" president that they have been claiming he was.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (0N4FZ)

114 It is highly agreeable on a cold day to put on clothes warm right out of the dryer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (tgvbd)
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One of life's little joys.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (GyQIQ)

The episode where Kramer learned this joy and started cooking his clothes in Jerry’s oven to get the same effect LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (5MZNC)

115 I'm sure it won't be enough for every head on piker but he didn't sound like he was bluffing. I think he wants payback more than we do.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:54 AM (viF8m)

Why let them know?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (uQesX)

116 There seems to be a steady stream of stories about women being schooled in the "FA And FO" principle.

Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)

117 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (53oGX)

118 Nightsticks are always a good choice, but (given that it is winter in Minneapolis), may I suggest water cannons?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 07:58 AM (ZkbES)

119 Can’t believe they’re rebooting The Rockford Files. The whole “rebooting” phenomenon needs to die, now.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (77rzZ)

It will not be Rockford. It will not be fun. It will not be good.

It will show the intellectual barrenness of Hollywood.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 07:58 AM (uQesX)

120 Your new vocabulary word: "hawala". It's how the money laundering in Minnesota works.

Background here:
https://tinyurl.com/yc5szwmw

More here:
https://tinyurl.com/3kzm64ye

The second article (which is pro-Somali) says it's being facilitated by an unnamed bank in Minnesota. DataRepublican believes it's a bank that was created by the state, apparently around the time the Somalis started showing up. She can't prove it yet though.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 07:58 AM (UmGiD)

121 There is no way the delusional wokesters at Reddit are correct about Newsome schooling, Ben right? For all his flaws, Ben is a master debater. Gavin couldn't even handle a little bit of pushback and criticism from a blue collar comedian. (Carolla is whip smart and irreverent to sacred cows like Newsome, he's fab, but you get what I mean.)

No way Newsome beats a Charlie Kirk, a Carolla, or Ben in a debate. Wonder why he's actually doing this. His ego can't take any pushback that he's not the greatest ever.

Crap, am I gonna have to watch his stupid podcast to see Ben fight him? I don't want to give him eyeballs and sponsor clicks.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:59 AM (gWBY1)

122 > Tom Homan was on with Ingraham last night. He was smiling like the Cheshire Cat describing how every arrest they were making was helping them plot the money and leadership flow of these fake riots. He claims they already have a very good idea who is behind all of this and they plan to take appropriate action.
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Three names keep popping up with regards to funding the anti-ICE riots:
Neville Roy Singham
Soros
Reid Hoffman

I would presume the administration has more "than an idea" as to who's funding the riots.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:00 AM (U2OZr)

123 Why let them know?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (uQesX)

Because that's when mistakes are made - it's the panic that is the gift that keeps on giving

Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2026 08:00 AM (BGfwC)

124
Wholley Kau!

That the first 20 seconds or so of the new Star Trek preview clip made me laugh!

Fat, ugly lesbians, who aren't yet shot in the face by ICE, have you got a show designed for you!

Go watch morons. Just the first 20 seconds and start your day off with your day off with a good laugh.

You're welcome!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 08:00 AM (iJfKG)

125 The second article (which is pro-Somali) says it's being facilitated by an unnamed bank in Minnesota. DataRepublican believes it's a bank that was created by the state, apparently around the time the Somalis started showing up. She can't prove it yet though.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 07:58 AM (UmGiD)
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Boy, I hope this turns out to be true. If Minnesota fraud operators couldn't even find a bank to launder their money and had to open their own to do it, that would speak volumes. If the same folks who hand out credit cards and bank accounts to Mr. No Name Given and facilitate massive remittances of drug money refused to operate Minnesota's scheme, that is pretty damning LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (GyQIQ)

126 There seems to be a steady stream of stories about women being schooled in the "FA And FO" principle.

Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.

Any day now one of them will start shrieking about how this never happened to Rey or She-Hulk and it's going to be amazing. The arresting officer may literally die laughing.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (UmGiD)

127 To President Trump: Dear God, no more warnings please just invoke the insurrection act and clear out the terrorist scum in Minneapolis already. The fat gay gasbag Tim Walz needs to be arrested yesterday. Just do it

Trump would rather see his agents get beaten up and gunned down rather than do that. I really believe that Trump only wants to visit America's Wrath on its foreign enemies, and VERY targeted , scalpel vs broadsword.

He probably knows that giving the Left any optics of real seriousness will jeopardize the whole operation - like the GOP doing what they normally do in the face of an Alpha Male taking charge and getting things done - they will urinate in their panties and cling to the safety of the Left's shock troops.

The villain here is Kash Patel. Here he has at his disposal goons who could make arrests like they did to the J6 "rioters". He won't do it, because he doesn't want to do it. He would rather be their BFF than be a leader.

Trump needs a war time consigliere, what he has is a DEI hire in the FBI and a Green Room Queen in DOJ

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (a4flb)

128 It Will Be Marco Rubio In 2028

Marco Rubio was a far, far, worse Senator for much longer than he' been a good SoS.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

129
The episode where Kramer learned this joy and started cooking his clothes in Jerry’s oven to get the same effect LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM

Or a pizza oven:
https://youtu.be/f9H24AXrXRk

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)

130 >>>I dunno.. seeing him tossed off of a Somali rooftop with the other 'undesirables' because he backed the wrong tribe with his graft would be deeply gratifying.

Posted by: Dawnbringer

>Walz defrauding his constituency and the waterheads of Minnesota, I don't care about. But the American taxpayer on a federal level?

He needs to go down.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (BSdIE)

131 There seems to be a steady stream of stories about women being schooled in the "FA And FO" principle.

Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)
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Adam Carolla has been talking a lot about this lately. His theory is simple. Most women have not been socialized in using violence and so are unable to calibrate its use and their reaction to it. Most boys grow up with rough and tumble play, and know their capabilities, limits, and tolerances. Girls do not, and therefore women do not understand violence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

132 Great picture of Trump signing a bill for dairy farming the other day, surrounded by families with little girls. Not a one of whom was sniffed.

Sometimes it's the little things that can make you happy Biden is gone.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (ZkbES)

133 Because that's when mistakes are made - it's the panic that is the gift that keeps on giving
Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2026 08:00 AM (BGfwC)

Your lower level maybe. Seems to me the big guys wouldn't panic, but try to lessen their exposure.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:03 AM (uQesX)

134 So the Black Nationalist Marxists are now going to bat for the Latino and Asian illegals?"

Yeah, no. I've seen this same "allegation" floating around, and just laugh. The hardcore SA gangsters + black panthers? That's a hollyweird fantasy. In real life, they'll be ventilating each other.

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:03 AM (XuXeR)

135 >>Why let them know?

They are uncovering billions of dollars of fraud not just in Minnesota but in other Democrat states as well and it appears to be connected. They are surging DOJ assets to MN, OH and other states following the money and building cases.

Do you really think they don't know already? Why do you think they are setting up these riots including having guys like Walz and Frey cheer them on?

The riots are a distraction to keep people from focusing on the corruption. The corruption didn't just funnel huge amounts of money to illegals and Democrat politicians it bought them votes to win elections they never would have won without it.

Biden didn't flood the US with millions of illegals out of compassion. It was all about money and power. This is a lot bigger than just sending Ahmed and Juan home.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 08:05 AM (viF8m)

136 This Reboot Makes the Least Sense of All
________
No. Just no.

I am sick of all these reboots and "reimaginings".

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 08:05 AM (s0JqF)

137 Can’t believe they’re rebooting The Rockford Files. The whole “rebooting” phenomenon needs to die, now.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (77rzZ)

It’s so stupid; it won’t work for a whole myriad of reasons, chief among them they can’t get James Garner as the lead, nor Noah Beery Jr and Stuart Margolin as supporting cast. Those actors made the original

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:05 AM (5MZNC)

138 There seems to be a steady stream of stories about women being schooled in the "FA And FO" principle."

Also - it's tough to generate much sympathy for, well... chunky women. Who clearly aren't "starving" or "concerned about feeding the kidlets"

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:05 AM (XuXeR)

139 Can’t believe they’re rebooting The Rockford Files. The whole “rebooting” phenomenon needs to die, now.

Hopefully Rockford will be a colored dwarf who is transitioning and living in a lean-to on the street where his dad, Rocky, helps out by panhandling on the corner when not giving blowjobs in the Family Dollar parking lot.

Posted by: TV Land, 2026 at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (n+1Zi)

140 The second article (which is pro-Somali) says it's being facilitated by an unnamed bank in Minnesota.

If true, it would be a laugh riot, if not so serious, if the bank was FDIC insured.

It would be appropriate, having a corrupt and rogue bank being backed up like Silicon Valley Bank with tax payer money.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (a4flb)

141 Your lower level maybe. Seems to me the big guys wouldn't panic, but try to lessen their exposure.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:03 AM (uQesX)

Also, there is nothing so sweet as the sweat generated from learning that those getting caught are singing like a canary - and that also keeps these folks from just getting out and returning to the criminal flock...

Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (BGfwC)

142 Marco Rubio was a far, far, worse Senator for much longer than he' been a good SoS.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (ExV1e)
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It might be that he found his place. I don't want Rubio as president. I don't think he'd be very good at it. I didn't think so when he ran the first time and as much as I like what Rubio has been doing - and I do, he's been great - I still think so.

I think Rubio is a spectacular SoS and general minister. I would love to see Rubio continue at State, or as a "minister without portfolio" for a pipe-swinging administration. Dude's a stud, but I don't think he'll make a great president. Or, at least, he will be nowhere near as good a president as he is at State and his other hats.

I think similarly, in some ways, of Bush 43. Had Bush 43 been at State instead of in the big chair, things might have worked out better. Bush was not a total retard on foreign policy. He had a perspective I no longer particularly like, but it was also a different time and he was well-suited to that milieu. He just shouldn't have been at the Resolute Desk.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (GyQIQ)

143 @114 Mister Scott-so in the face of actual insurrection Trump should do nothing? Maybe the inverse is true, do nothing and get blown out for the mid terms because you did nothing so conservatives say F it and stay home?

Trump AND you......all of us here at AOS are nazis, cultists, subhuman in the eyes of the left already, hence why they have no apprehension at calling for our deaths and killing some of us like Charlie Kirk. You do comprehend that, right?

Posted by: JROD at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (IlL6s)

144 Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX

I find it hard to imagine myself jumping out of my car and punching someone I didn't know about a policy I didn't like and then giggling about it. I hope I never get that deranged.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (ix8EF)

145 There seems to be a steady stream of stories about women being schooled in the "FA And FO" principle.

Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)
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Adam Carolla has been talking a lot about this lately. His theory is simple. Most women have not been socialized in using violence and so are unable to calibrate its use and their reaction to it. Most boys grow up with rough and tumble play, and know their capabilities, limits, and tolerances. Girls do not, and therefore women do not understand violence.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

I blame the prohibition against playing Dodgeball in elementary school. A girl gets nailed by a frozen rope thrown by an athletic boy and everybody notices.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 16, 2026 08:07 AM (wVcYX)

146 Crap, am I gonna have to watch his stupid podcast to see Ben fight him? I don't want to give him eyeballs and sponsor clicks.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:59 AM (gWBY1)
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The clip I posted is short and humorous

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:07 AM (RIvkX)

147 "It is not just in the best interests of the region, but in the best interests of the world that the biggest terrorist government in the world should fall. But how can it be done?"

Sorry, but this is just stupid. Trump's team has ALREADY figured out how it can be done, and has been in the process of doing it for months now. This is back seat driving, when the driver knows exactly where he's going, and you're already halfway there. How BLIND do you have to be not to see it?

Does anybody REALLY think it's some sort of COINCIDENCE that this is happening on Trump's watch, shortly after Trump took out Iran's nuclear facilities? Not to mention the goings-on in Venezuela and elsewhere?

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:07 AM (hOOi9)

148 > "Marco Rubio was a far, far, worse Senator for much longer than he' been a good SoS."

Rubio owes Trump an incredible debt of gratitude for wrenching him away from the McCain wing, and washing the stink of it off of him in his first term.. Trump has an eye for talent, and Rubio has yet to disappoint so far.

Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 08:08 AM (koFAO)

149 I saw several Western shitlib media outlets reporting gleefully that the Iranian protests were slowing down ("slowing down" seems to be the agreed-upon phrase that shows up in several articles).

I wonder if the regime is restoring order, or if that's just Western shitlib wishcasting.

*shrugs*

Who knows? Everything is fake and ghey.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:08 AM (BI5O2)

150 Good morning Horde. Thx JJ.
Seeing that picture of Walz I had a vision of Walz as the Vargas girl cover of Candy-O. Thx for that image

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (Oql3v)

151 Trump has an eye for talent, and Rubio has yet to disappoint so far."

This. Frankly, I'm amazed at how well Rubio worked out.

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (XuXeR)

152 >>Three names keep popping up with regards to funding the anti-ICE riots:
Neville Roy Singham
Soros
Reid Hoffman

>>I would presume the administration has more "than an idea" as to who's funding the riots.

We've known those names for years. But it wasn't just 3 guys, there are whole networks and a lot of that money came right out of the US Treasury. Soros' NGOs have been getting money from USAID and other sources for years. It's not all his money he's spending, it's ours. Singham gets money and direction from the CCP.

I'd rather they get the while cancer than just what we can see.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (viF8m)

153 Were Renee and Rebecca, the scissoring sisters of sweetness and light being paid for their felonious efforts to interfere with federal law enforcement personnel?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)

154 Unfortunately,
It's National Fig Newton Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

155 Also, there is nothing so sweet as the sweat generated from learning that those getting caught are singing like a canary - and that also keeps these folks from just getting out and returning to the criminal flock...
Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (BGfwC)

Well, we'll see. I expect very little to happen right away. You can't let it continue without some response.

As for Ahmed and Juan, the man responsible must be punished. I don't care what condition he is in. He must pay. His former boss should receive a late night call telling him to get out of this country or else.

Won't happen, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (uQesX)

156 OT- Speaking of "Star Trek"- I don't have the capability to watch the new "Star Fleet Academy" and it sounds stupid anyway, but my husband and son watched the movie, "The Wrath of Khan " from 1982 yesterday and they enjoyed it .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (ix8EF)

157 Rebooting murder she wrote too. But without Angela Lansbury and her wonderful friends in Cabot Cove, what is the series really? No way Jamie Lee Curtis can top the original.

But people like their cozy mysteries. The matlock reboot with Cathy bates is doing ok ratings wise.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (gWBY1)

158 "It Will Be Marco Rubio In 2028"

My take on him to date.

His fingerprints look to be all over theory the and implementation of the Donroe Doctrine, making sure the EuroCommies understand they are the tip of the tail and and not the dog, backing our Middle Eastern allies to protect Israel and end the Mullah's reign of terror, and cause the Chicoms geopolitical pause. He is showing he knows how to wield power, is willing to use it and with confidence.

On the domestic front, his years in Congress gave him experience and skills to navigate the DC nonsense. His rhetorical style, while not the bombastic Trump way, is said with steel teeth. Plus he sees to have internalized the principles and exercise of an America First nation. That son of Cuban immigrants learned his lessons well.

During his first run, he wasn't baked yet and it showed. Today, in his current role, he has come to know everybody on the world stage and has demonstrated he gets results strategically and tactically. He is showing he can be a man of consequence whose possess a honed skill set that makes him the best person to carry forward Trump's MAGA revolution. I am becoming increasingly impressed.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (HTCU3)

159 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

160 Speaking of Rockford Files… Beth Davenport. Yowza and yum. She was so awesome….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (WnEm5)

161 Adam Carolla has been talking a lot about this lately. His theory is simple. Most women have not been socialized in using violence and so are unable to calibrate its use and their reaction to it. Most boys grow up with rough and tumble play, and know their capabilities, limits, and tolerances. Girls do not, and therefore women do not understand violence.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)
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"I don't know my strength and I have no way to gauge yours" is a thing. Another and likely bigger part, though, is that they don't know they need to because hitting girls is always considered bad behavior and they rarely - if ever - get an example of direct consequences. When girls hit, they get restrained and removed, not pummeled. The "if I hit you, I might get my ass knocked out and so maybe I should consider if that consequence is worth it" thing is not something they learn.

When girls get hit, it's usually at the hands of another girl and it's something approaching a "fair fight." She messes with her man, so the other woman intervenes. Etc. Not *that* uncommon. But women getting a straight beat-down is extremely rare. That consequence isn't real to them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:11 AM (GyQIQ)

162 117 There seems to be a steady stream of stories about women being schooled in the "FA And FO" principle.

Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)

I see it as a form of ritual human sacrifice. These women are intentionally being brainwashed to get themselves killed. There's probably even a number of virgins among them. Sick, sick, people behind this.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:11 AM (hOOi9)

163 ICE needs to get those water cannon trucks like the Dirty Frogs have. Pull up, hose down the marxists, watch them turn into a block of ice, drive off.

Posted by: Mr. Freeze at January 16, 2026 07:26 AM

Flechettes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

164 I think Rockford drove a Pontiac LeMans

Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 08:12 AM (ZxPkt)

165 Marco Rubio… the guy is awesome but not for POTUS. Let’s make him emperor of the galactic federation and El Presidente of Cuba simultaneously… for life

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:12 AM (WnEm5)

166 Laugh for the morning: AI makes "Ice Ice Baby" about a dead lesbian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZHpWH80rKc

My favorite line is "She took the L for the LGBs".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:13 AM (UmGiD)

167 Can’t believe they’re rebooting The Rockford Files.

While doing some design work on the computer, ran the pilot of the Rockford Files on another monitor.

A Pilot is supposed to be the episode that convinces the studio to green light a whole season.

• James Garner is Jim Rockford, there can be no other. Full Stop.

• Like anything from the 70s, it was so slow, every scene was dragged out as if they were trying to amortize the time of lugging tons of heavy film equipment to the scene and wanted more than a few quick seconds, but minutes of Los Angeles icon scenery.

• the villains were cartoonish, almost camp.

The nostalgia in every scene was the only thing that kept me interested. Still didn't finish watching the first episode. Too boring.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:13 AM (a4flb)

168 FenelonSpoke

Yes, Wrath of Khan was the best of the Star Trek movies. Glad Spouse and Son got some time to bond over that.

And my best wishes to you all for the new year. May it be spectacular.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

169 Rebooting murder she wrote too. But without Angela Lansbury and her wonderful friends in Cabot Cove, what is the series really? No way Jamie Lee Curtis can top the original. ...
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (gWBY1)
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Even with them, "Murder, She Wrote" was borderline unwatchable. It was a bad show in its prime, but Lansbury made it work. In its own time, it wouldn't have worked without what she brought to it.

Today? With a bluezillion options of what to watch and a move in technology that obviates the entire formula (the Rockford reboot will suffer the same problem)? It's fishing the bottom for something to do. Hollywood is cooked.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:13 AM (GyQIQ)

170 Speaking of Rockford Files… Beth Davenport. Yowza and yum. She was so awesome….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (WnEm5)

I liked her car, too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:14 AM (uQesX)

171 “ The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

John 1:29

Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (B5Sbl)

172 What was the homicide rate in Cabot Cove?

Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (ZxPkt)

173 ... There's probably even a number of virgins among them. Sick, sick, people behind this.
Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:11 AM (hOOi9)
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:: lays down $5 bill ::

I'll take the other side of that one. Unless it's a child dragged along by her mom.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (GyQIQ)

174 Don't take the brown acid!
Or the oxalic acid!

Posted by: Chip Monck at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (oftw2)

175 Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions

Rubio is blossoming under a strong leader. Can he do that on his own? Don't know. But put him in charge of Cuba, and we can find out.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

176 :: lays down $5 bill ::

I'll take the other side of that one. Unless it's a child dragged along by her mom.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (GyQIQ)

That's a sucker's bet. The kind of women doing this protesting definitely have at least a 2-digit body count.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:17 AM (UmGiD)

177 Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”

Half the citizen of Mogadishu MN will be eating the goats, the other half fucking them.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

178 ...my husband and son watched the movie, "The Wrath of Khan " from 1982 yesterday and they enjoyed it .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (ix8EF)
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Actually, its really missing something.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 16, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

179 But women getting a straight beat-down is extremely rare. That consequence isn't real to them.

Well, we can tell you are not a cop.

Top on the call list is Domestic Violence. Far too many women are directly experienced with violence.

I'm glad that you were raised in a household and community where regular beat-downs by the Man Of The House was not featured.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (a4flb)

180 You know, before Bart Simpson and the blackboard, Rockford had a different message on his answering machine, every week.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (s0JqF)

181 I think Rockford drove a Pontiac LeMans"

*cries in Firebird*

"I liked her car, too."

Had one, too.

*misty eyed again*

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (XuXeR)

182 158 Rebooting murder she wrote too. But without Angela Lansbury and her wonderful friends in Cabot Cove, what is the series really? No way Jamie Lee Curtis can top the original.

But people like their cozy mysteries. The matlock reboot with Cathy bates is doing ok ratings wise.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (gWBY1)

No doubt, most of these sorts of things are like Wicked. Attempts to re-write our culture the way the twisted satanists in Hollywood want it to be. Their puppet masters know what Brietbart knew - that politics is downstream from culture, so they are attempting to usurp American culture.

Note that in Wicked, all the good guys in the story are rewritten as bad guys, and the Wicked Witch - who is named that for a reason - is portrayed as the VICTIM. It became popular, I think, because of great music. The song about "Defying gravity" is clearly about overcoming seeming insurmountable obstacles in life - a great message. But in the movie, it's literally about the evil witch learning to fly her broomstick - as if that's a GOOD thing.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:19 AM (hOOi9)

183 Top on the call list is Domestic Violence. Far too many women are directly experienced with violence.

And lesbian domestic violence is literally off the charts.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:19 AM (UmGiD)

184 >> "..Half the citizen of Mogadishu MN will be eating the goats, the other half fucking them."

Half?! They'll ALL do both, it is traditional.. the question is in what order..

Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 08:20 AM (koFAO)

185 And lesbian domestic violence is literally off the charts."

Especially during the supa bowl?

Heh

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:20 AM (XuXeR)

186 183 ...

No doubt, most of these sorts of things are like Wicked. Attempts to re-write our culture the way the twisted satanists in Hollywood want it to be. Their puppet masters know what Brietbart knew - that politics is downstream from culture, so they are attempting to usurp American culture.

Note that in Wicked, all the good guys in the story are rewritten as bad guys, and the Wicked Witch - who is named that for a reason - is portrayed as the VICTIM. ...
Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:19 AM (hOOi9)
_______
So does that mean Angel Martin will be the real brains of the rebooted show?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 08:21 AM (s0JqF)

187 Andrew Breitbart may his memory be for a blessing when he declared "Fuck You, War!" Expressed it perfectly, except the Left have been waging war against us for decades and it is high time WE THE PEOPLE resist, fight back and Win absolute victory. Amen.
____

There's still plenty of money being funneled to my family from the schemes run by my friends across the aisle. Let's not be hasty.

Posted by: GOP Congressman at January 16, 2026 08:21 AM (Dv3i1)

188 So does that mean Angel Martin will be the real brains of the rebooted show?"

*recalls great theme music*

It's going to be bad. Very bad.

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:22 AM (XuXeR)

189 I dunno. I kinda preferred the wicked witch to that manipulative bitch Glinda. Especially with that Billie Burke voice.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (77rzZ)

190 They are going to escalate the riots this weekend.
Because they need to hype up their big walkout on Tuesday.
Where students are going to shout "no one is illegal on stolen land!"
Which the media will explain in the way they do "from the river to the sea"

Anyway, there's this mythology, that nonviolent protests always win. That the exploitation of the morality ("you can't hit a woman!") of your opponents (while you have none) can't be countered.

It's going to be amusing when No Kings II fizzles eves sadder than the first ones.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (1EkgP)

191 I think many of the women participating in the riots just don't fit in anywhere else. The riots are obviously staged, paid for and require motivated bodies.

Plus, I'd wager many of these women are angry... for whatever reason. Likely under or unemployed. Have no traditional home life.

They'd be drifters if they were male.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (U2OZr)

192 In my pre 29 years I watched a lot of tv, however I never saw a single episode of Murder She Wrote or Matlock. Did I miss anything?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (2NHgQ)

193 Note that in Wicked, all the good guys in the story are rewritten as bad guys, and the Wicked Witch - who is named that for a reason - is portrayed as the VICTIM.

It's Schroedinger's Feminism: women are both empowered and hapless victims and they decide which they are for a given situation. See also the movie that tries to explain that it's not Cruella deVille's fault that she likes to skin puppies.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (UmGiD)

194 Top on the call list is Domestic Violence. Far too many women are directly experienced with violence.

I'm glad that you were raised in a household and community where regular beat-downs by the Man Of The House was not featured.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (a4flb)
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DV is also grossly over-reported and one of the most common false reports. Punching a wall - not the woman - is "DV." Yelling can be "DV." DV stats are so padded as to be worthless. And a scuffle or mutual combat - and mutual combat is the most common form - is is not a beat-down.

Which is not to say that it doesn't happen. It does. Wife-beaters exist and aren't all that rare, but they are by no means the norm or the typical experience. Women (in fact, everyone) shouldn't experience arbitrary severe violence, and thankfully most do not.

But even that is a different category. That isn't the case of a woman with no inkling of consequences picking fights with strangers in a street war. If there's one thing that describes all of this shit, it's "no inkling of consequences." There are a staggering number of people who have no clue that consequences exist at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (GyQIQ)

195 >>> Even with them, "Murder, She Wrote" was borderline unwatchable.

Them's fighting words. I own the whole series on DVD. It's delightful. But I also have nostalgia of watching it with my mom every Sunday night when it was still on the air.

You have to ignore the idea that all those murders pop up in one little town, which is why I love the theory she's a secret serial killer. Also why they had to move her to NYC to teach, and do glitzy trips around the world, to make her finding a new murder of the week more plausible.

I will admit though, the few eps where they bring her books to life? My least fave. Her books were mid at best. But I adore Angela so I'll forgive them trying to play with the format of the show. Her book titles were great, though. "The corpse danced at midnight" is intriguing.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (gWBY1)

196 Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks; Same to you, Salty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (PFs9e)

197 Neville Roy Singham
Soros
Reid Hoffman

Too Big to Jail.

Its easier to abduct the "President" of Venezuela than it is to touch any of these guys, given the current composition of the DOJ, the courts and today's sorry excuse for juries.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (a4flb)

198 The Left are existential defoliators, exterminators -- they cannot allow a trace of truth or charity or even humanity to remain for someone seen as a challenge to their cause. Thus the post-mortem aspersions for Scott Adams

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (b4LBp)

199 They are going to escalate the riots this weekend."

Forecast for Sat PM is... minus something.

Not much rioting goin on

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:25 AM (XuXeR)

200 So does that mean Angel Martin will be the real brains of the rebooted show?"

*recalls great theme music*

It's going to be bad. Very bad.
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:22 AM (XuXeR)

Jimmy! Jimmy! I need some geet, man. I got the perfect mark set up! — Angel

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:25 AM (P/Wjn)

201 Suck-My-Ballz Walz has suddenly switched to begging to "lower the temperature".

I think it's finally starting to soak in to that miserable clump of neurons he calls a brain that it's just about all over for him.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:25 AM (IG3/x)

202 In my pre 29 years I watched a lot of tv, however I never saw a single episode of Murder She Wrote or Matlock. Did I miss anything?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (2NHgQ)
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Never seen Matlock. MSW is not something I think you need to lament having missed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (GyQIQ)

203 I think similarly, in some ways, of Bush 43. Had Bush 43 been at State instead of in the big chair, things might have worked out better. Bush was not a total retard on foreign policy. He had a perspective I no longer particularly like, but it was also a different time and he was well-suited to that milieu. He just shouldn't have been at the Resolute Desk.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (GyQIQ)

Ironic commentary given that, if memory serves, he ran on the idea that he'd basically ignore foreign policy and just do domestic stuff. Until 9/11.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

204 Plus, I'd wager many of these women are angry... for whatever reason. Likely under or unemployed. Have no traditional home life.

They'd be drifters if they were male."

Camp followers...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (XuXeR)

205 Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

In October, the Latin Kings put out a bounty on Commander Bovino in Chicago

Now a Latin Kings member was just arrested in MN for stealing FBI weapons

LKs are major partners of the Sinaloa Cartel in the US. They are now targeting the ICE raids. This is all connected

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

206 I have several permanent injuries from fighting as a youth. I have a plate in my jaw. I have scars inside my mouth that still randomly just hurt out of nowhere. I have scars on my brain. My nose is a fucked up mess. It doesn't bother me anymore, but i scored a cool orbital fracture once, fighting a particularly big, mean boy. I have a bad right ankle, knee and shoulder, not from fighting, but from rugby, which is similar.

There are basically no women with this kind of medical chart. They simply have no clue how savage fighting a boy or man can be. It's not in their frame of reference, and these NGOs, Soros prosecutors, and their pet policemen and mayors are setting them up in very risky situations they aren't equipped to evaluate rationally. It was only a matter of time til one got pasted.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (BI5O2)

207 > You have to ignore the idea that all those murders pop up in one little town, which is why I love the theory she's a secret serial killer.

She was killing them. Her accomplice, Karl Malden, was stealing their traveler's checks.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:27 AM (IG3/x)

208 Ironic commentary given that, if memory serves, he ran on the idea that he'd basically ignore foreign policy and just do domestic stuff. Until 9/11.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)
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Yup. And yet, he ended up pushing a fairly comprehensive foreign policy, anchored on the need to pivot away from Europe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:27 AM (GyQIQ)

209
As long as we're contemplating military action against repressive violent tyrants,, I'd rather see a carrier battle group sail up the Mississippi and conduct operations against Minneapolis.

me as well, but have you seen how low the river is between Memphis and New Orleans? Evidently is is draining itself into a massive aquifer and there isn't anything humans can do at all to stop it. should take about 250-300 years to fill it up.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 16, 2026 08:27 AM (XKSmi)

210 In my pre 29 years I watched a lot of tv, however I never saw a single episode of Murder She Wrote or Matlock. Did I miss anything?

No. Boring ass rot TV that no one should have had to watch.

Did I ever tell you that Aunt Bee did butt stuff?

Posted by: Zombie Andy Griffith, liberal asshole at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM (n+1Zi)

211 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Hope you get to feeling bette. We have the technology today to help with that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

212 You have to ignore the idea that all those murders pop up in one little town, which is why I love the theory she's a secret serial killer."

What, you don't see dead bodies around your hood?

Heh

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM (XuXeR)

213 The murder rate in Cabot Cove, Maine top any location in the country. I would think real estate companies would say that area was not a good place to relocate to

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)

214 It is highly agreeable on a cold day to put on clothes warm right out of the dryer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Enhance the warm glow by spreading Icy Hot in your drawers!

Posted by: Toasty Warm In NC at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (oftw2)

215 Morning JJ and the Horde. Lived in Phoenix for some years a while back, and was never a McCain fan, but he did one thing right. He held down that Senate Seat every 6 years. Unlike today with two faux military lefty Dems

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

216 The song about "Defying gravity" is clearly about overcoming seeming insurmountable obstacles in life "of a non-cis-trans, non-binary, homoqueer, dragonkin, neurofecked, pigeon-toed, geophagic"- a great message.
--

FIFY

Posted by: Hollyweird at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Dv3i1)

217 Rubio is blossoming under a strong leader. Can he do that on his own? Don't know. But put him in charge of Cuba, and we can find out.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Fair point. Then again, he is spending his days in an ongoing master class - he cannot come out of it unchanged. He seems to be learning and internalizing all the right things. The future is unknowable but he seems to know what he is about and what needs to be done better than any other potential 2028 candidates; he sure seems to be two term material. His short coming, and this is true of all potential 2028 candidates, is he lacks Trump's economic mind and Trump's masterfully ruthless ability to manipulate events to achieve his goals. Maybe more to the point, does Rubio have Trump's single minded will power that may be deterred but never derailed?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (HTCU3)

218 Now a Latin Kings member was just arrested in MN for stealing FBI weapons

LKs are major partners of the Sinaloa Cartel in the US. They are now targeting the ICE raids. This is all connected
Posted by: redridinghood

At some point we are going to have to start ending people. Our civilian court system isn't set up for this.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 08:30 AM (GK5Hx)

219 Enhance the warm glow by spreading Icy Hot in your drawers!
Posted by: Toasty Warm In NC at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (oftw2)
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Enhance the warm glow by putting transuranic elements in your pockets!

Posted by: Atomic Heat For The People, A 501(c)(3) at January 16, 2026 08:30 AM (GyQIQ)

220 The clip I posted is short and humorous
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:07 AM (RIvkX)
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Watching Newsom in that clip I am reminded of what a slimeball he is. In his home state, supported as he is there by family and political connections stretching across generations, and wealthy donors like the Gettys, he can be governor, but outside of California I gotta believe he is unelectable.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (ZkbES)

221 Did I ever tell you that Aunt Bee did butt stuff?
Posted by: Zombie Andy Griffith, liberal asshole at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM
***

And that Thelma Lou? What a floozy.

Posted by: Howard Sprague at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

222 DV is also grossly over-reported and one of the most common false reports. Punching a wall - not the woman - is "DV."

LEOs love to train in Krav Maga. My instructor was the equivalent of a Black Belt in KM and was also a LEO in his real job.

Normally any LEOs in the class would pair up, and on the many occasions there was an odd number, I was the guest sparring opponent - because these guys bring to the floor the violence of the streets and few of the guys could go toe-to-toe with them for an hour.

So there was a mutual respect, and out came the stories, and there was a lot of DV - the real kind, not just punching walls. Maybe they all lied or embellished stories, but they were the most shocking.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (a4flb)

223 Little Marco grew up and became El Marco Grande before our very eyes.

Posted by: Delurker at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (gtcuf)

224 Now a Latin Kings member was just arrested in MN for stealing FBI weapons

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I translate this as "a fail guy got arrested after an FBI operation to arm Latin Kings was accidentally exposed."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (BI5O2)

225 DV is also grossly over-reported and one of the most common false reports.

I've seen videos where the woman is on the phone with the police saying that the guy is beating her and she's afraid for her life and he's recording the whole thing on his phone from the 2nd floor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

226 Its easier to abduct the "President" of Venezuela than it is to touch any of these guys, given the current composition of the DOJ, the courts and today's sorry excuse for juries.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (a4flb)

Absolutely. Singham, for example left this country when he started worrying that he might be called to account. Although his current residence is listed as Singapore, I’ve seen a report that he now spends most of his time in Shanghai, under the personal protection of Chairman Xi.
In case anyone had any doubts about who he is really working for.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 08:32 AM (hxusQ)

227 The murder rate in Cabot Cove, Maine top any location in the country. I would think real estate companies would say that area was not a good place to relocate to
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)
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I have the same reaction when we watch all those British detective shows my bride loves so much. The murder rates in these small villages and towns is through the roof.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (ZkbES)

228 Did I ever tell you that Aunt Bee did butt stuff?

Wasn't it the cast of The Brady Bunch where what took place between them off camera was far more entertaining than what was broadcast on TV?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (a4flb)

229 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Our Justice system .. is not about Justice.
Two of the three branches of government are disconnected from functioning as designed.

Trump as Cromwell, the a restoration under Baron, first of his name, may be needed. No. No Kings.
But we do need to unleash DOGE and pare down the spending.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (u82oZ)

230 You can't even mention George Soros on Fox without being interrupted and shut down, as Newt Gingrich learned. That's some protection racket.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (b4LBp)

231 I saw Wicked live on stage and enjoyed it. I'm not sure that the stage play was as anti man as the movies purportedly are, I haven't and won't see the movies. As I recall the stage version had great songs and that's about all I remember.
The two leads in the movies are about as weird as can be, very off putting.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (2NHgQ)

232 It's going to be amusing when No Kings II fizzles eves sadder than the first ones.
____

The Latin Kings won't fizzle out, yo.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (Dv3i1)

233 The murder rate in Cabot Cove, Maine top any location in the country. I would think real estate companies would say that area was not a good place to relocate to
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)
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Why would they? They're salesmen. The salesman never says, "hey, my product is crap."

Posted by: Atomic Heat For The People, A 501(c)(3) at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (GyQIQ)

234 >156 OT- Speaking of "Star Trek"- I don't have the capability to watch the new "Star Fleet Academy" and it sounds stupid anyway, but my husband and son watched the movie, "The Wrath of Khan " from 1982 yesterday and they enjoyed it .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (ix8EF)

I loved the captain's chair on the Romulan bird of prey is upholstered in Fine Corinthian Leather™

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (GTqXr)

235 ‘Paramount spent between 6-10 million an episode on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. They put the premier on YouTube for free and got 1300 live viewers.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (gbOdA)

236 I never knew what Andy Griffith's politics were . I liked it better when we didn't know that and when they just shut up and did their acting.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (PFs9e)

237 Breitbart said ‘war!’ a long time ago. Maybe we need to re-look circumstances surrounding his death.

Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (o2ZRX)

238 I have the same reaction when we watch all those British detective shows my bride loves so much. The murder rates in these small villages and towns is through the roof.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (ZkbES)
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MSW *is* a British detective show. Same concept, same formula. Different accents and a bit less hysterical shrieking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (GyQIQ)

239 Watched the Senate Judiciary committee hearing yesterday, and it is amazing that the GOP allows 92 year old Grasslee to be the Chairman. He is a good man, but was elected the same year as Ronnie Reagan

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

240 Watched the Senate Judiciary committee hearing yesterday, and it is amazing that the GOP allows 92 year old Grasslee to be the Chairman. He is a good man, but was elected the same year as Ronnie Reagan
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:35 AM (YCxFk)
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For about 30 or 40 years, the Judiciary Committee has been the prime example of how retarded, venal, rude and sinister these people are.

Go watch Biden interrogating Thomas for retarded malice on full display. It is not better now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (GyQIQ)

241 239 Watched the Senate Judiciary committee hearing yesterday, and it is amazing that the GOP allows 92 year old Grasslee to be the Chairman. He is a good man, but was elected the same year as Ronnie Reagan
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:35 AM

###

Whippersnapper.

Posted by: The ghost of Strom Thurmond at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (2Ez/1)

242 Lawsuit alleging Krysten Sinema was banging her security detail:

https://tinyurl.com/4yp3ynyw

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (XvL8K)

243
At some point we are going to have to start ending people. Our civilian court system isn't set up for this.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 08:30 AM (GK5Hx)
*****
Unfortunately, due to severe TDS this country is completely upside down.
Latin Kings member is just a Minnesota man. One of their neighbors.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

244 The best one was Endeavor, about a young inspector Morse. Every week was like watching a top notch film. Very clever

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (YCxFk)

245 > Wasn't it the cast of The Brady Bunch where what took place between them off camera was far more entertaining than what was broadcast on TV?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (a4flb)

The actor who played the father, Mike, was gay. The actor who played Greg was nailing both his on-screen mother, Carol, and his on-screen sister, Marsha.

Go Greg!

I believe Alice might've been a big ol' lesbo, too, but I'm not certain of that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (IG3/x)

246 > Suck-My-Ballz Walz has suddenly switched to begging to "lower the temperature".
---

wait
I thought he had declared war on the Union

Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (ZxPkt)

247 I have not really watched TV since 1977. One of the first actions after my wife passed was to cancel Direct TV. I did watch KSU football games. Little else. She brought TV back into my life, but we never watched networks, only DVDs.

I have poor TV cultural knowledge as a result.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

248 It just popped up in a Newsbreak feed that the new Star Trek Academy will have a Boothby Memorial Park. Given the slop that this show allegedly is, I'm sure Ray Walston would cringe

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (Oql3v)

249 236 Fen, AG did an ad for Obamacare in his last years.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (77rzZ)

250 > Neville Roy Singham
Soros
Reid Hoffman

Too Big to Jail.

Its easier to abduct the "President" of Venezuela than it is to touch any of these guys, given the current composition of the DOJ, the courts and today's sorry excuse for juries.
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If Singham's in his hometown of Singapore, the Lincoln carrier strike group will literally sail by his home on its way to the Persian Gulf. Probably easier to do a snatch 'n grab with him than Maduro.

It's an opportunity. Nothing more. And I don't really expect the administration to take advantage of it.

But, it's there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (U2OZr)

251
Lawsuit alleging Krysten Sinema was banging her security detail

I was under the impression she had Sapphic tendencies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (tgvbd)

252 242 Lawsuit alleging Krysten Sinema was banging her security detail:

https://tinyurl.com/4yp3ynyw
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM

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Was that wrong? Should she not have done that?

Posted by: George Costanza at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)

253 I know that the hard core dems/progressives are bat shit crazy and that may explain walz and frey, however I'm doubtful in that regard. I still think they're trying to save their asses because they are so deeply involved in the Somali grift that all of their theatrics is a smoke screen. It's unbelievable what falls from their lips when they talk about immigration enforcement.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (2NHgQ)

254 Haha, Democrats like to cite the latest polling that only 38% of voters approve of the GOP, forgetting the same poll has Demofascist approval at 32%

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (ZkbES)

255 180 I'm glad that you were raised in a household and community where regular beat-downs by the Man Of The House was not featured.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (a4flb)

Those are for the children, not for the wife.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (iXqHn)

256 MSW *is* a British detective show. Same concept, same formula. Different accents and a bit less hysterical shrieking.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (GyQIQ)

Yup. You know you are not watching a British drama if you don't hear a woman screaming like she was being disemboweled with a trench tool, at the sight of a coffee ring on her table, or somesuch trifle.

The overacting by Brits is perplexing for me as an American viewer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (BI5O2)

257 240. Joe, reason I hated Biden for years was the Thomas and Bork hearings

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (YCxFk)

258 I never knew what Andy Griffith's politics were . I liked it better when we didn't know that and when they just shut up and did their acting.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (PFs9e)

That's the way it used to be. Used to be. We know know Griffith was more like his character in A Face in the Crowd and Pray for the Wildcats than TAGS.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (uQesX)

259 A college basketball point-shaving scheme involving more than 39 players on 17 NCAA Division I teams resulted in dozens of games in the previous two seasons being fixed by a gambling ring that included a former NBA player, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

260 If Singham's in his hometown of Singapore, the Lincoln carrier strike group will literally sail by his home on its way to the Persian Gulf. Probably easier to do a snatch 'n grab with him than Maduro. ...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (U2OZr)
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That would be hilarious. Just grab him en passant and keep moving.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (GyQIQ)

261 237 Breitbart said ‘war!’ a long time ago. Maybe we need to re-look circumstances surrounding his death.
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (o2ZRX)

I'm still not entirely convinced that Bill Ayers didn't poison him.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (iXqHn)

262 > Those are for the children, not for the wife.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (iXqHn)

Violent child abuse is almost always the woman.

Child sexual abuse is virtually always a "boyfriend". While it does happen, it's pretty rare for a biological father to sexually abuse his own kids.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (IG3/x)

263 Latin Kings member is just a Minnesota man. One of their neighbors"
They'll get along fine. Both are tribal, and the northern tribes tend to be pretty meek...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

264 I always thought 70s private eyes should have suffered severe brain damage with all the times they got knocked out.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (8CIFn)

265 I was under the impression she had Sapphic tendencies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (tgvbd)
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I was under the impression that a - ahem - lady like Sinema just has "tendencies."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (GyQIQ)

266 > I was under the impression she had Sapphic tendencies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (tgvbd)

I always got the vibe that she was prettty...flexible...in that area.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:42 AM (IG3/x)

267 Present day Brit detective shows are too PC. Ones set in past are better. Endeavor and Inspector Foyle are great

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

268 Hadrian the Seventh

She said she was bisexual.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

269 I always thought 70s private eyes should have suffered severe brain damage with all the times they got knocked out.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (8CIFn)
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My namesake's brain would have mush in real life. Dude got knocked out routinely and shot semi-routinely. If the lead poisoning didn't get him, the CTE definitely would have.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (GyQIQ)

270 245

No, Ann B Davis, who played Alice on the Brady rich was not a lesbian. Just an unmarried woman and a devout Christian. And here's her testimony from "Faithpot" site:

https://tinyurl.com/2tza5en9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (PFs9e)

271 242 Lawsuit alleging Krysten Sinema was banging her security detail:

https://tinyurl.com/4yp3ynyw
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM
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Sinema had a "security detail"? Do Senators have security details? Did not know.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (ZkbES)

272 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF
Sure JJ has the story I read this morning, Jeffers ( Marxist).has said he declares war against ICE

Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (12/sY)

273 vibe that she was prettty...flexible...in that area."

Or well worn...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (XuXeR)

274 “Murder she wrote” was one of the best in the genre; it was better written for one thing, and often had episodes that paid homage to some great mystery writers of the past.
What was even better was that Angela Lansbury knew and kept up with many people she had known when starting out, and many episodes have guest stars who were well known in Hollywood in the 40’s and 50’s, but who had been forgotten by the public. She delighted in calling them back, and they loved being able to give an encore to their old careers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (hxusQ)

275 Wow, YD, sounds like Jo Mannix was tough to have as a brother. Hope you gave back to him as good as you got.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

276 Original Hawaii five 0 was excellent . Best of the 70’s

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (YCxFk)

277 Lawsuit alleging Krysten Sinema was banging her security detail:

https://tinyurl.com/4yp3ynyw
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (XvL8K)

Cullbrap! It's a woman claiming the senator was with her husband. We know she didn't go that way! Dismissed!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:44 AM (uQesX)

278 262 Violent child abuse is almost always the woman.

Child sexual abuse is virtually always a "boyfriend". While it does happen, it's pretty rare for a biological father to sexually abuse his own kids.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (IG3/x)

Not in my case. My father hit me a whole hell of a lot more than he hit his wife. He kicked her out when I was 7 years old, though.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:44 AM (iXqHn)

279 Meant "Alice" on "The Brady Bunch"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:44 AM (PFs9e)

280 The best one was Endeavor, about a young inspector Morse. Every week was like watching a top notch film. Very clever
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (YCxFk)

I liked Endeavor. My favorite I think was Foyle’s War

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:44 AM (OW907)

281 Sinema was given a detail after she and Manchin voted to keep the filibuster. Whackos in Phoenix and Tucson made threats.

She saved our bacon

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

282 Breitbart had a congenital heart condition. Doesn't mean he wasn't offed, but still. Witnesses at time of his death said he'd been chatting normally with people and suddenly dropped like a sack of potatoes.

Such a huge loss.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (b4LBp)

283 Yes foyles war, I called it inspector. Great show

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (YCxFk)

284 Fun fact. Joe Mannix was played by actor Mike Connors.
Mike Connors was his stage name.
His given name was Krekor Ohanian.

Posted by: Who names their kid Krekor? at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

285 You youngsters may not be aware but both Matlock and Murder, She Wrote were known as fodder for the early bird crew while they were still broadcast on the air.

There used to be this thing on television called "Prime Time"

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (RIvkX)

286 That would be hilarious. Just grab him en passant and keep moving.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (GyQIQ)
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Burial at sea, with full al Qaeda honors would be a good choice.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (ZkbES)

287 279 Meant "Alice" on "The Brady Bunch"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thanks, Fen for setting the record straight. I was about to, but you beat me to it.

Posted by: She Was A Gentle Soul at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (oftw2)

288 /dam

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (RIvkX)

289 But we do need to unleash DOGE and pare down the spending.

That is the talk of billionaires as leaders. Unfortunately, the entire Congress is staffed with grifters wanting to use their office and their access to money to be billionaires.

I would include We The People, but half are on the take in the form of entitlements, and many people who work are dependent on government graft either as employees or contractors, and a large segment who just pays into the system is buying Powerball tickets.

Hard to find decent Americans who are satisfied in their trades and the station in life God has granted them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (a4flb)

290 Wow, YD, sounds like Jo Mannix was tough to have as a brother. Hope you gave back to him as good as you got.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

We barely ever fought. He did once staple my shirt to back pretty thoroughly, though, so I don't really recommend pissing him off.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (BI5O2)

291 Sinema was on F&F the other day. She looked kinda frumpy.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

292 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be safe and warm.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

293 > His given name was Krekor Ohanian.
Posted by: Who names their kid Krekor? at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

Try Mladen Sekulovich.

Posted by: Karl Malden at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (IG3/x)

294 It started with Murder She Wrote then The Brady Bunch. Only at AOS could the mention of The Brady Bunch turn comments R-rated. Well done guys, lmao. I'm never let down here.

Posted by: JROD at January 16, 2026 08:50 AM (IlL6s)

295 Natalia Zakharenko (Natalie Wood)

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

296 Most consider the two space battle scenes between Defiant and Enterprise in Wrath of Khan to be the best space battle scenes in any sci-fi movie, ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (hxusQ)

297 The best "British detective shows" are neither British nor American, but Australian.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (GyQIQ)

298 Benny Kubelsky
Nathan Birnbaum
Leslie Townes Hope
Virginia McGrath

Posted by: Ad Infinitum at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (oftw2)

299 Natalia Zakharenko (Natalie Wood)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

And her sister's name?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (uQesX)

300 294 It started with Murder She Wrote then The Brady Bunch. Only at AOS could the mention of The Brady Bunch turn comments R-rated. Well done guys, lmao. I'm never let down here.
---
Akcshually it started with me.

Posted by: Aunt Bee who does you know what at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)

301 Favourite part of Murder, She Wrote was when Pat Summerall would do the promo for the Sunday evening shows and always had an extended pause between 'Murder' and 'She Wrote'.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (NcvvS)

302 Those are fightin' words, pilgrim.

Posted by: Marion Morrison at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (IG3/x)

303 213 The murder rate in Cabot Cove, Maine top any location in the country. I would think real estate companies would say that area was not a good place to relocate to
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)
________
That reminds me of what Michael Gilbert said when asked why he usually used lawyers and detectives as his protagonists. "I always wondered how many murders it would take before hostesses stopped inviting Lord Peter Wimsey to their house parties."

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (s0JqF)

304 Sinema was on F&F the other day. She looked kinda frumpy.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)
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I had to look away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

305 Original Hawaii five 0 was excellent"

The opening music.... wow.

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

306 > The opening music.... wow.
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

Even as a small child I knew that hula dancer had it goin' on.

Posted by: Marion Morrison at January 16, 2026 08:54 AM (IG3/x)

307 Those are fightin' words, pilgrim."

Let's put them to music!

/Reginald Dwight

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (XuXeR)

308 I thought he had declared war on the Union

Walz is no General Sherman

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (a4flb)

309 Dear Mr. O'Sefton,

The illustration you chose to lead this morning's Thread with is not consonant with Mr. Walz being one of the exemplars of Modern Masculinity.

Please treat Mr. Walz, along with Mr. Emhoff and Mr. Hogg, as the paragons of Modern Masculinity they so richly are.

#BeBetter

Posted by: (D)emocrats at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (0sNs1)

310 This is good

Stanley Cup champs Florida Panthers visited the White House

they all wore their "Trump Suit", which is dark navy, white shirt, red tie

https://tinyurl.com/mr5dfnx2
goes to Fox

Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (ZxPkt)

311 I had heard that Neville Singham is living in Shanghai. Don't know if he's still there

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (Oql3v)

312 Wherever Neville Roy Singham goes Shanghai goes with him.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:57 AM (RIvkX)

313 Killing whales to resume: lefties in NYC seem pretty excited a federal judge junior President has issued a "preliminary injunction" against the administration's effort to stop a "wind project" just outside of New York harbor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:57 AM (Exs4i)

314 MN ICE Watch, which describes itself as an "autonomous collective
--------

But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.

Yes, I see.

By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs–

Be quiet!

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 08:58 AM (3AyDK)

315 Killing whales to resume"

There's another joke in there somewhere...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (XuXeR)

316 The street protests really don’t matter that much.

When the elites start feeling uncertain about their future, the regime will fall. Too much pressure and the coalesce and fight the death. They need to believe they can survive and early quits are better than late.

It’s delicate.

Things to watch - money fleeing, US military power moving, judges and administrators slow walking orders to commit ‘crimes’, defections, disappearances that include family.

Posted by: MJ at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (PDegU)

317 It's a bit mind blowing to think that Timmy Walz, once a candidate for VP, might be remembered not as Kamala's running mate, but the late leader of America's 21st century insurrection.

Bet he gets a monument. Posthumously.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (U2OZr)

318 Hawaii Five O’s theme was the best in TV history. Bar none.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

319 Killing whales to resume: lefties in NYC seem pretty excited a federal judge junior President has issued a "preliminary injunction" against the administration's effort to stop a "wind project" just outside of New York harbor.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:57 AM (Exs4i)
====

Nuke the whales! Nuke the whales!
-Antifa

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (RIvkX)

320 Didn't non-profits used to be called NGOs? haha

Posted by: Yop at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (RKj5x)

321 > Be quiet!
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 08:58 AM (3AyDK)

There's some lovely filth over here.

Posted by: Dennis the Peasant at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (IG3/x)

322 The best "British detective shows" are neither British nor American, but Australian.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (GyQIQ)
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Like what?

I am always looking to get cheap credit points suggesting new shows!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (Exs4i)

323 Didn't non-profits used to be called NGOs? haha
Posted by: Yop at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (RKj5x)
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Usually interchangeable during my adult life. Dunno about before that.

But "NGO" is the biggest misnomer in the history of language.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (GyQIQ)

324 221 Did I ever tell you that Aunt Bee did butt stuff?
Posted by: Zombie Andy Griffith, liberal asshole at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM
***

And that Thelma Lou? What a floozy.
Posted by: Howard Sprague at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)
________
Twenty dollars. Same as in Mount Pilot.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (s0JqF)

325 The riots will continue until the Lawyers on Retainer stop getting paid.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (uEmCf)

326 > Twenty dollars. Same as in Mount Pilot.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (s0JqF)

Was it Mount Pilot? I always assumed it was Mount Pilate, and wondered why the hell they named a mountain after him.

Posted by: Dennis the Peasant at January 16, 2026 09:01 AM (IG3/x)

327 Hard to find decent Americans who are satisfied in their trades and the station in life God has granted them.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (a4flb)

I hated my job for 35 years but I went to it everyday trying to do my best because I was taught 'even if you are just a ditch digger be the best ditch digger you can be'.

That's the attitude of America that has changed IMO. We've largely become a 'good enough' and envious society at the same time.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (KDPiq)

328 Thelma Lou was very pretty.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

329 Breitbart had a congenital heart condition. Doesn't mean he wasn't offed, but still. Witnesses at time of his death said he'd been chatting normally with people and suddenly dropped like a sack of potatoes.

I know people who are convinced that Rush Limbaugh was given spiked cigars that gave him lung cancer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (a4flb)

330 I had to look away.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

Look… look away… I’m hideous! — Cosmo Kramer after a lifetime of smoking in one night

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (ZtAny)

331 Like what?

I am always looking to get cheap credit points suggesting new shows!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (Exs4i)
++++
I've seen a few episodes of "Doctor Blake" and it struck me as doing the British mystery thing better than most.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (GyQIQ)

332 @300 Aunt Bee-search; peaches Andy Griffith on YouTube........some of you commenters please don't search it. Puts quite the twist on The Andy Griffith Show.

Posted by: JROD at January 16, 2026 09:03 AM (IlL6s)

333 Who would have thoight that being a multi-tasking NYC real estate developer would be such good training for the Presidency.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2026 09:03 AM (dtajH)

334 The best "British detective shows" are neither British nor American, but Australian.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (GyQIQ)
================

Not detective but Mr In Between was the best Australian show ever .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:04 AM (KDPiq)

335 >Thelma Lou was very pretty.
----

She was no Lou-Ann Poovie

Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 09:04 AM (ZxPkt)

336 326 There is actually a Pilot Mountain in NC. The name of the town was a variant of that.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

337 329 Breitbart had a congenital heart condition. Doesn't mean he wasn't offed, but still. Witnesses at time of his death said he'd been chatting normally with people and suddenly dropped like a sack of potatoes.

sounds like how my husband get a nice lil pacemaker when fairly young.

bradycardia is under diagnosed. low heart rate is good, right?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:05 AM (emBoF)

338 non-profits" = mucho virtue.

Still lots of income.

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:05 AM (XuXeR)

339 328 Thelma Lou was very pretty.
Posted by: Bulg

Yes, but for a really good time call...

Posted by: ...Juanita Down At The Diner at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (oftw2)

340 333 Who would have thoight that being a multi-tasking NYC real estate developer would be such good training for the Presidency.

he also had a TV show

I think that was probably half of the training he needed sad to say!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (emBoF)

341 I hated my job for 35 years but I went to it everyday trying to do my best because I was taught 'even if you are just a ditch digger be the best ditch digger you can be'.

These are the people I want to be around. I love my gig and have adopted the same ethos as this blog's Ben Had that you will read of my retirement when you read my obituary.

There were gigs where I was NOT happy and left them on the idea that Life Is Too Short To Be Frustrated All The Time.

Most jobs have rough patches and looking at the reward rather than the effort helps push through to completion.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (a4flb)

342 One episode of Andy Griffith had relatives from Lake Charles, LA visit. That's where I grew up . Our claim to fame😀

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (KDPiq)

343 "Doctor Blake" was good to start and sort of frittered away. "Darby and Joan" is also OK, though seeing Greta Scacchi as not her young gorgeous self is a little bracing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:07 AM (Exs4i)

344 Yes, but for a really good time call...
Posted by: ...Juanita Down At The Diner"

Don't forget there's a little Cafe just the other side of the border...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

345 he also had a TV show

I think that was probably half of the training he needed sad to say!

Why am I thinking of Ronald Reagan?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:07 AM (a4flb)

346 The riots will continue until the Lawyers on Retainer stop getting paid.

^^^^ Wisdom

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:08 AM (a4flb)

347 he also had a TV show

I think that was probably half of the training he needed sad to say!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (emBoF)
=================
It is interesting how many people with TV experience are at high levels in the Trump administration.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:08 AM (Exs4i)

348 >>

More importantly, she gave them needed checks and new acting jobs at a time their pensions or their bank accounts were drying up. She helped save them financially, and introduced them to a new generation. Angela was an absolute mensch of a woman.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 09:10 AM (gWBY1)

349 When I was growing up loving hockey, playing hockey and watching hockey, the idea that there would ever be a hockey team in Florida or that it would win the Stanley Cup was ridiculous.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:10 AM (b4LBp)

350 177 Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”

Half the citizen of Mogadishu MN will be eating the goats, the other half fucking them.
Posted by: r hennigantx

It's permissible to fuck goats and other animals, but only if they are immediately slaughtered after the act, and the meat sold to kuffar.

Posted by: Real Muslim Imam's Fatwa at January 16, 2026 09:11 AM (JCZqz)

351 The riots will continue until ....

At - 5 F? Yeah.

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (XuXeR)

352 Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.” ...
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:17 AM (gbOdA)
++++
That's some Silicon Valley-level nonsense right there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (GyQIQ)

353 When I was growing up loving hockey, playing hockey and watching hockey, the idea that there would ever be a hockey team in Florida or that it would win the Stanley Cup was ridiculous.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:10 AM (b4LBp)

Weird, isn't it?

Posted by: Las Vegas Golden Knights at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (uQesX)

354 348. Yes, she was. And she moved with her daughter to Ireland when the daughter started hanging out with the Manson family.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

355 >>> 334 The best "British detective shows" are neither British nor American, but Australian.

You reminded me I might be due for a rewatch of "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries!" Sexy and silly and fun. And I would die to own her house in Melbourne.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 09:13 AM (gWBY1)

356 The Left's celebrity politicians- Al Franken , Jerry Springer

The Right's celebrity politicians , - Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:13 AM (KDPiq)

357 Mornin' Horde! I neglected to mention yesterday that my followup CT scan came back clean, and the doc is very happy with my progress! Praying others here dealing with cancer have similar results in 2026!

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:14 AM (OUMaO)

358 Brother Tim that is WONDERFUL

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:15 AM (emBoF)

359 I know people who are convinced that Rush Limbaugh was given spiked cigars that gave him lung cancer.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (a4flb)

No need for a conspiracy.

Rush was a heavy cigarette smoker for years.

Small cell carcinoma's right in line with that.

Cigars are more of a mouth, lip, and throat cancer kind of thing anyway.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:15 AM (iJfKG)

360 Yeah, I always associated hockey with the great white north, where you can skate outdoors on frozen lakes

the only ice in Vegas is in the cocktails

Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 09:15 AM (ZxPkt)

361 Congrats Brother Tim on kicking cancer's ass! So happy for you.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 09:15 AM (gWBY1)

362 Praying others here dealing with cancer have similar results in 2026!"

!!!!

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:16 AM (XuXeR)

363 Interesting observation about the PDT crew having on air experience. I would guess it gives them a leg up since they know what goes on with the lying media and fake news and it's easier to combat a lot of that crap.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 09:16 AM (2NHgQ)

364 Yay, Brother Tim! Keep on going!

Posted by: Love Good News at January 16, 2026 09:16 AM (oftw2)

365 One of our godsons married a girl from Melbourne, and got stuck there during covid, when the Aussies shut down travel. He loves the place now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:16 AM (/pgyj)

366 There is going to be a rally in support of ICE in Minneapolis per the Varney show this weekend. If you think there's been violence before the crazies will attack this rally in force

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 09:17 AM (Oql3v)

367 They just had to evacuate the Houston's Memorial City Mall because of an ammonia leak at the ice rink ( that's where I played in an amateur hockey league briefly )

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:17 AM (KDPiq)

368
Nice, Brother Tim!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (iJfKG)

369 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Clown World
@ClownWorld
“I will be blind for life.”

A protester lost his vision after intervening in an ICE arrest.

Maybe trying to stop it wasn’t the right move

https://tinyurl.com/yc2rf8dv

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

370 Good job, Brother Tim! Keep up the good work!

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (77rzZ)

371 The murder rate in Cabot Cove, Maine top any location in the country. I would think real estate companies would say that area was not a good place to relocate to
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)
=================
I have the same reaction when we watch all those British detective shows my bride loves so much. The murder rates in these small villages and towns is through the roof.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM

I know, right? Visit an English country house and you're pretty much f*cked.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (kgE5c)

372 There is going to be a rally in support of ICE in Minneapolis per the Varney show this weekend. If you think there's been violence before the crazies will attack this rally in force
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 . 09:17 AM (Oql3v)

Need the guy there that laid out a half dozen protesters when they confronted him. That was an awesome video no matter what the subject was.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (KDPiq)

373 It's a bit mind blowing to think that Timmy Walz, once a candidate for VP, might be remembered not as Kamala's running mate, but the late leader of America's 21st century insurrection.

Bet he gets a monument. Posthumously.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

A men's urinal with a tampon dispenser next to it?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:19 AM (OUMaO)

374 “Fuck you, war!” indeed.

Posted by: OnPoint at January 16, 2026 09:19 AM (RK/h9)

375 Bet he gets a monument. Posthumously.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (U2OZr)
++++
Probably. They can put it between Fauci's and Jarrett's.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:20 AM (GyQIQ)

376 Tim Walz is asshoe.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:20 AM (kgFPv)

377 I'm rejoicing with you, Brother Tim! Great news!

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 09:21 AM (FMtrg)

378 rally in support of ICE in Minneapolis per the Varney show this weekend."

*looks at weather forecast*

Nope. Well, there will be ice.

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:21 AM (XuXeR)

379 Great to hear Brother Tim !

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 09:21 AM (Oql3v)

380 Remember when hapless NYC shut down the Wollman Skating Rink to rebuild it? Took years, cost overruns, then it didn't work? Private citizen Trump took over the project, redid it his way, and had it open in months.

Posted by: Things To Come at January 16, 2026 09:21 AM (oftw2)

381 They just had to evacuate the Houston's Memorial City Mall because of an ammonia leak at the ice rink ( that's where I played in an amateur hockey league briefly )

Posted by: Opinion fact

Serious business that. I worked at a grocery warehouse back in the day where the anhydrous ammonia tanks for the frozen storage leaked. The evacuation was a clusterfuck, the route made no allowances for if, say, the wind was blowing the stuff right across the route...as it did that day.

The tanks were right above the offices. The warehouse folks were OK but several folks in payroll went to the hospital. Place was a bad joke on a number of grounds.

It ain't there anymore.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (OUMaO)

382 Congratulations, Brother Tim!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

383 Nuke the whales! Nuke the whales!
-Antifa
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM

Shave the whales.

- Dogbert

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (kgE5c)

384 Kathleen Kennedy Blames Fans, Misogynists, Bots For Star Wars Backlash

According to Kennedy, these fans simply wanted “the same thing” and were impossible to satisfy if Lucasfilm chose to go in new creative directions.

“The lows are that you’ve got a very, very small percentage of the fan base that has enormous expectations,” Kennedy said, adding that she wouldn’t change any of the creative decisions she made while running the studio.

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

385 Cea Weaver has been talking again. This woman just cannot stop herself from saying the quiet parts out loud.

https://tinyurl.com/3amdyfxp

(link goes to Legal Insurrection)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (dAH7n)

386 Serious business that. I worked at a grocery warehouse back in the day where the anhydrous ammonia tanks for the frozen storage leaked. The evacuation was a clusterfuck, the route made no allowances for if, say, the wind was blowing the stuff right across the route...as it did that day.

The tanks were right above the offices. The warehouse folks were OK but several folks in payroll went to the hospital. Place was a bad joke on a number of grounds.

It ain't there anymore.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (OUMaO)
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Ugh. What a rotten design that sounds like. Oy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (GyQIQ)

387 When I was growing up loving hockey, playing hockey and watching hockey, the idea that there would ever be a hockey team in Florida or that it would win the Stanley Cup was ridiculous.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:10 AM (b4LBp)

Weird, isn't it?
Posted by: Las Vegas Golden Knights at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (uQesX)

Right?
- Anaheim Mighty Ducks

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (kgFPv)

388 376 Tim Walz is asshoe.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:20 AM (kgFPv)

I'm flabbergasted that anyone would EVER consider Walz or Harris for national office. And yet I know people who voted for them who can tie their own shoes.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (FMtrg)

389 “The lows are that you’ve got a very, very small percentage of the fan base that has enormous expectations,” Kennedy said, adding that she wouldn’t change any of the creative decisions she made while running the studio.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo)
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Of course she wouldn't change a thing. She's a malignant narcissist incapable of learning from her mistakes. She's always, ALWAYS right. About everything.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (ESVrU)

390 grinning anti-ICE agitator was arrested after she allegedly punched a Florida state trooper during a confrontation with federal agents — drawing a blunt warning from Gov. Ron DeSantis that the Sunshine State “is not Minneapolis.

Odd, the left tells me that J6 was a violent insurrection because protestors pushed cops. I guess it would be a super violent one if they punched cops?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (sKqQm)

391 Rand Paul to Joe Rogan: DOJ Won't Prosecute Anthony Fauci for Lying

Making an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) expressed his frustration that the Trump administration has failed to refer Anthony Fauci for criminal prosecution for lying to Congress. Paul told Rogan that he believes Fauci's blanket pardon—issued by former President Joe Biden during the waning hours of his presidency—should be challenged in court. Paul said he has provided Attorney General Pam Bondi with evidence that Fauci misled Congress about gain-of-function research and also instructed his deputies to destroy public records in order to stymie scrutiny.

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

392 Right. Carolina Hurricanes. Dallas Stars here too

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 09:25 AM (YCxFk)

393 "Pretty tame, given the rioting. We're *days* into this thing and they're just now getting to tear gas?"

Every incident where "protesters" physically interfere with ICE, they need to arrest at least a few, as a message to the others. The trained "protesters" think they know they can get away with some criminal acts (blocking roads, pushing or shoving, whatever).

They need to be taught that any organized resistance is criminal, accomplished by hauling them off. Not sure, but I think that may be why they need the Insurrection Act in effect, so they can arrest without pleading with cops to stop the rioters.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 09:25 AM (vbXSk)

394 The Phoenix NHL team rightly moved to Salt Lake City.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (kgFPv)

395 Cea Weaver has been talking again. This woman just cannot stop herself from saying the quiet parts out loud. ...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (dAH7n)++++
"Unless we can undermine the institution of homeownership and seek to provide stability in other ways, I don't know--it's a really difficult organizing situation we find ourselves in."

Remarkably clear, actually. "We have a generally stable system here, but we don't like it because we're revolutionaries - but we acknowledge that stability is bad for the revolution business. The best approach for us is to destabilize the system through artificial external pressure from the top, so that we can re-stabilize it on terms we find more preferable at the expense of those who we destabilized."

Hideous. Evil. But clear.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (GyQIQ)

396 I saw some article recently about how ice hockey is a big thing in Nairobi, Kenya now.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (77rzZ)

397
Shorter Kathleen Kennedy:

"You bastards wouldn't eat the Dead Rats and Broccoli in Turd Sauce that I cooked up for you!"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (iJfKG)

398 I'm flabbergasted that anyone would EVER consider Walz or Harris for national office. And yet I know people who voted for them who can tie their own shoes./i]

Those people consume a very tightly curated narrative about politics. They likely haven't seen a full speech by either, have no idea what either have done in elected office, nor what policies they claimed to support during the election.

I mean you have to stop and consider that in 2020 Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist - which is one of the most serious sins to the left and yet she became his VP and Dems supported both of them...So which is it...is Kamala a liar or is Biden a racist?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (sKqQm)

399 Remarkably clear, actually. "We have a generally stable system here, but we don't like it because we're revolutionaries - but we acknowledge that stability is bad for the revolution business. The best approach for us is to destabilize the system through artificial external pressure from the top, so that we can re-stabilize it on terms we find more preferable at the expense of those who we destabilized."

Hideous. Evil. But clear.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM

This guy? He gets it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (kgE5c)

400 Fauci misled Congress about gain-of-function research and also instructed his deputies to destroy public records in order to stymie scrutiny.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (RHGPo)
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Prosecute the staffers who destroyed those records. Build the case the old fashioned way, and just start going up the chain.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (dAH7n)

401 Unless we can undermine the institution of homeownership

Most people can go home and just tune out everything the left wants them to be upset about. And there is nothing the left can do abut it and it infuriates them

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

402 398 I'm flabbergasted that anyone would EVER consider Walz or Harris for national office. And yet I know people who voted for them who can tie their own shoes./i]

Those people consume a very tightly curated narrative about politics. They likely haven't seen a full speech by either, have no idea what either have done in elected office, nor what policies they claimed to support during the election.

I mean you have to stop and consider that in 2020 Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist - which is one of the most serious sins to the left and yet she became his VP and Dems supported both of them...So which is it...is Kamala a liar or is Biden a racist?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (sKqQm)
________
And. Both are true.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (s0JqF)

403 which is it...is Kamala a liar or is Biden a racist?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16,

yes.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (kgFPv)

404 Shorter Kathleen Kennedy:

"You bastards wouldn't eat the Dead Rats and Broccoli in Turd Sauce that I cooked up for you!"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (iJfKG)
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Smother broccoli in honey-dipped bacon and it's still broccoli.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (ESVrU)

405 “The lows are that you’ve got a very, very small percentage of the fan base that has enormous expectations,” Kennedy said, adding that she wouldn’t change any of the creative decisions she made while running the studio.
Posted by: SMOD

Leftists always double down. But her stinking reputation will be pointed at for decades as an example of turning an expensive asset into a giant radioactive turd. Which was of course her missions but she cannot say that in public.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (WDjG6)

406 I saw some article recently about how ice hockey is a big thing in Nairobi, Kenya now.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM

Really, mon? Crazy, dat.

- Jamaican bobsled team

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (kgE5c)

407 A protester lost his vision after intervening in an ICE arrest.
___

His?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (Dv3i1)

408 Most people can go home and just tune out everything the left wants them to be upset about. And there is nothing the left can do abut it and it infuriates them
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm)
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Nothing we can do about it, eh? You sure about that, bucko?

Posted by: Your County Clerk and Recorder, a revolutionary at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (GyQIQ)

409 JustTheNews:

Somali Subpoenas: Congress moving quickly to investigate cash-in-luggage exodus from U.S. airports

Two powerful committee chairmen in Congress are moving quickly to investigate why Somali immigrant couriers were moving hundreds of millions of dollars out of U.S. airports in their luggage to overseas destinations the last few years, and whether there is any connection to a massive fraud scheme in Minnesota or terror groups in their native country in Africa. “We're going to do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of this […] and it will mean subpoenaing these things,” Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Just the News in an interview Thursday.

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

410 And. Both are true.

I mean yes...we have enough from Biden to establish he is a racist

But...

You can't be an "anti-racist liberal" and support both Harris and Biden. At least not if you believe in a damn thing you claim to...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (sKqQm)

411 I’ve always found it weird the KC doesn’t have a hockey team. Seems like it would do well there.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (kgFPv)

412 Smother broccoli in honey-dipped bacon and it's still broccoli.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM

Yes, but...it's smothered in honey-dipped bacon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (kgE5c)

413 ... Two powerful committee chairmen in Congress are moving quickly to investigate why Somali immigrant couriers were moving hundreds of millions of dollars out of U.S. airports in their luggage to overseas destinations the last few years, ...
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (RHGPo)
+++++
The dissonance is loud here.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (GyQIQ)

414 Hideous. Evil. But clear.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM
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She reminds me of characters Orwell would have written about.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (dAH7n)

415 The high temp in Minneapolis tomorrow is 10 degrees F.
Do they pay the "protestors" extra for extreme weather conditions?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (2Ez/1)

416 I assume any 'man' that is short, has a high voice and a scruffy beard that makes them look like a leprechaun is actually a petite female taking male hormones. I could be wrong.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (Dv3i1)

417 The Trump administration has tapped a longtime Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official to serve as second in command of the agency. Charles Wall, who currently serves as ICE’s principal legal advisor, will become the new deputy director of the agency, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday via a social media post.

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

418 >>> Shorter Kathleen Kennedy:
"You bastards wouldn't eat the Dead Rats and Broccoli in Turd Sauce that I cooked up for you!"

Sorry Kathleen, I'm allergic to arsenic sauce.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (gWBY1)

419 389 “The lows are that you’ve got a very, very small percentage of the fan base that has enormous expectations,” Kennedy said, adding that she wouldn’t change any of the creative decisions she made while running the studio.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo)
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Of course she wouldn't change a thing. She's a malignant narcissist incapable of learning from her mistakes. She's always, ALWAYS right. About everything.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (ESVrU)
________
Like another incompetent woman whose name starts with "K".

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (s0JqF)

420 A protester lost his vision after intervening in an ICE arrest.

that's a female

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (emBoF)

421 416 I assume any 'man' that is short, has a high voice and a scruffy beard that makes them look like a leprechaun is actually a petite female taking male hormones. I could be wrong.

you are not wrong

this ICE thing is hell on lesbians apparently

they do already have self-destructive tendencies...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (emBoF)

422 "I don't know--it's a really difficult organizing situation we find ourselves in."

Always look for that word "organizing." It's the dead giveaway.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (b4LBp)

423 387 Right?
- Anaheim Mighty Ducks
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (kgFPv)

The California Golden Seals and LA Kings joined the NHL in 1967, as part of the expansion that took the league from 6 teams to 12.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (uEmCf)

424 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Clown World
@ClownWorld
“I will be blind for life.”

A protester lost his vision after intervening in an ICE arrest.

Maybe trying to stop it wasn’t the right move

https://tinyurl.com/yc2rf8dv
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (NpAcC)
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1. This creep got slugged in the face at the gay bar when he tried to suck off the wrong guy

2. That’s a black eye. He’ll be fine.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (BFX4z)

425 A federal judge Thursday dealt a significant legal setback to the Trump administration in its efforts to obtain voter data held by states. In a 33-page order, U.S. District [ Clinton ] Judge David O. Carter in California dismissed a lawsuit that sought to give the Justice Department access to the Democratic-led state’s voter files, including records like Social Security numbers and driver’s license information. California is one of 23 states, along with Washington, D.C., that the Justice Department has sued for refusing to hand over the voter data. The lawsuit against California was filed in September.

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

426 I assume any 'man' that is short, has a high voice and a scruffy beard that makes them look like a leprechaun is actually a petite female taking male hormones. I could be wrong.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (Dv3i1)

Always after me Lucky Tampons!

Posted by: Leprechaun-Looking "Guy" at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (iJfKG)

427 What is most astounding is that from Rousseau to 20th century communist atrocities to Mamdani and his ilk is a bright, straight line, and yet there are lots of people who sign up for the bullshit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (dAH7n)

428 Two powerful committee chairmen in Congress are moving quickly to investigate why Somali immigrant couriers were moving hundreds of millions of dollars out of U.S. airports in their luggage to overseas destinations the last few years, ...
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (RHGPo)
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The dissonance is loud here.

Congress actually has plenty of power via "the purse" here if they actually did want to use it to get the decision makers fired and the people on the ground that were "just following orders" to have their pay docked...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

429 What is most astounding is that from Rousseau to 20th century communist atrocities to Mamdani and his ilk is a bright, straight line, and yet there are lots of people who sign up for the bullshit.

This time the correct people will be in charge so it will be nothing like the last time

Posted by: What the left always says at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (sKqQm)

430 420 A protester lost his vision after intervening in an ICE arrest.

that's a female
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (emBoF)
——-

I think it’s male-to-female freak

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (BFX4z)

431 Mexican vloggers react to growing Indian presence in America, ‘Feels like we landed in India’

... trouble in BiPOC-land ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

432 She reminds me of characters Orwell would have written about.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (dAH7n)
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Orwell was more subtle than this.

She's more like an Ayn Rand villain.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (GyQIQ)

433 Hideous. Evil. But clear.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Yet cries and breaksdown when her mommy's house is brought into the equation. These are people that rely on others to do the coercing.

Whatever you say about the old Bolshies, they had a core of stone cold killers and tough guys. The new Bolshies have trust funds and figure they will be on top of the lists for the new 'affordable' housing in a rent controlled apartment.

Same for the Chinese, the old hard asses that went on the Long March are about all gone, instead, you get the weakasses that got to the top by being their nepots and not suffering the violence and depredations that their ancestors did.

The new left are mainly people that sucked on the government tit for a long period of time or became fabulously rich via the tech revolution. These folks have to rent loyalty from the plebes which one can see in the MN protests. The POCs and poors aren't out there because no money in it.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (WDjG6)

434 From Jean-Paul Marat to Jacob Frey, another straight red line.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (b4LBp)

435 I’m continually amazed by rulings that say the president doesn’t have access to state data. It’s like saying the CEO of Walmart isn’t allowed to look at individual store data.

How the fuck is any appellate court or scotus allowing this shit?

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (kgFPv)

436 ... Same for the Chinese, the old hard asses that went on the Long March are about all gone, instead, you get the weakasses that got to the top by being their nepots and not suffering the violence and depredations that their ancestors did. ...
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (WDjG6)
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In fairness, this is why their parents fought. Nobody would play king games if they didn't get to hand the future to their kids. The good kings ensure their kids can both continue the work *and* still have a kingdom to rule.

The mediocre kings do one or the other. The bad kings do neither.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:36 AM (GyQIQ)

437 429 What is most astounding is that from Rousseau to 20th century communist atrocities to Mamdani and his ilk is a bright, straight line, and yet there are lots of people who sign up for the bullshit.

This time the correct people will be in charge so it will be nothing like the last time
Posted by: What the left always says
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And yet, the Left is a Potemkin village compared to what it used to be. There is no groundswell of the poor pushing revolution; Cloward Piven ironically deprived the left of its footsoldiers which is why they imported a new set abroad. Instead, it is a bunch of hothouse flowers from higher ed and wealth larping at being revolutionaries. And being thoroughly stupid about it.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:37 AM (WDjG6)

438 Breitbart said ‘war!’ a long time ago. Maybe we need to re-look circumstances surrounding his death.
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (o2ZRX)

I'm still not entirely convinced that Bill Ayers didn't poison him.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (iXqHn)

He had heart issues, as did his dad. My wife's friend lost her brother to a heart attack at the age of 43. With no signs of previous heart issues. It does happen.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 16, 2026 09:38 AM (5xuJ/)

439 433 The new left are mainly people that sucked on the government tit for a long period of time or became fabulously rich via the tech revolution. These folks have to rent loyalty from the plebes which one can see in the MN protests. The POCs and poors aren't out there because no money in it.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (WDjG6)

The Left may have overcalculated, their supposed Armies of Street Thugs are starting to see that there's nothing in it for them, no reason to go Gorilla Mode and kill for a bunch of rich white soy-infused trust fund nepots.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:38 AM (uEmCf)

440 "A protester lost his vision after intervening in an ICE arrest. Maybe trying to stop it wasn’t the right move"

It's just one eye, he should keep protesting. He only has one life to give for his "protest", but he has two eyes, toughen up.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 09:40 AM (vbXSk)

441 Nood, btw.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 16, 2026 09:40 AM (NcvvS)

442 438 He had heart issues, as did his dad. My wife's friend lost her brother to a heart attack at the age of 43. With no signs of previous heart issues. It does happen.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 16, 2026 09:38 AM (5xuJ/)

Still, not long before he died, he made a big deal out of that whole "I won the auction to have dinner with Bill Ayers" thing...

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:40 AM (uEmCf)

443 In fairness, this is why their parents fought. Nobody would play king games if they didn't get to hand the future to their kids. The good kings ensure their kids can both continue the work *and* still have a kingdom to rule.

The mediocre kings do one or the other. The bad kings do neither.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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China effectively aborted its future with its one child policy and now they are beginning to pay the piper. And its ruling class is far more interested in stealing everything not nailed down and doing shakedowns of its private firms for additional grift.

The commies in the West are also hot house flowers because they don't understand the psychology of the proletariant anymore. The proletariat don't want to own nothing, instead they are as avaricious as a Wall Street banker. Pay them welfare and they frankly don't give much of a shit about street antics and cosplay revolutionaries. It is the young and educated, often pretty wealthy, that are the enraged footsoldiers of the left. These are people that have been educated beyond their competence and are filled with rage that they don't have positions that they think are commensurate with their bien pensant status.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:42 AM (WDjG6)

444 443 It is the young and educated, often pretty wealthy, that are the enraged footsoldiers of the left. These are people that have been educated beyond their competence and are filled with rage that they don't have positions that they think are commensurate with their bien pensant status.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:42 AM (WDjG6)

They want to know why they don't get invited to the Eyes Wide Shut Child Rape Orgies.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (uEmCf)

445 The Left may have overcalculated, their supposed Armies of Street Thugs are starting to see that there's nothing in it for them, no reason to go Gorilla Mode and kill for a bunch of rich white soy-infused trust fund nepots.
Posted by: XTC

There is a brief but illuminating scene in St. Elmo's Fire movie where one of the characters is a social worker.

A client woman comes in and the social worker is all abuzz about the female client signing up for this or that program to get out of poverty. The woman listens for a bit and then tells her, all I want is my check.

And as she was leaving, the client tells the social worker, something like you outta get out of here, marry a good looking guy, and then you would not have to be dealing with this shit.

Welfare classes are not revolutionary because they don't view life as some means to create ideological utopias. They just want to get paid so they can get back to their own lives in a bit of comfort.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (WDjG6)

446 "He had heart issues, as did his dad."

Makes it easy for the Dark Police to use their heart attack gun, make it look "normal". But we will probably never know. Same for many others ... Rush, Mike Flynn, ummm I used to remember other names that died too young.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 09:48 AM (vbXSk)

447 They want to know why they don't get invited to the Eyes Wide Shut Child Rape Orgies.
Posted by: XTC
========
Something like that, they have enormous entitlement issues but they cannot seem to pay the rent, their schooling without massive debt, or for a car. And they think themselves as philosopher kings that should not worry about such mundane activities. That tendency increases as they climb the education scale in degrees. They hate hate hate the successful plumber, the electrician, the shop or factory owner, because they have as much if not more money than them despite not being 'smart'.

Teachers' pets gone wild.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:50 AM (WDjG6)

448 "senior Iranian officials are funneling their money out of the country"

It's crap like this that needs to be punished but men and judges will never put these officials on trial or punish them for the theft of a country's wealth.

Posted by: Joe at January 16, 2026 09:57 AM (Uy/WF)

449 Andrew Breitbart was adopted at three-weeks old and it's not clear if he ever knew his biological father.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 10:00 AM (b4LBp)

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