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The Morning Report — 2/5/26

Good morning kids. As the spouse is going into hospital this morning for a scheduled surgical procedure, I'll have to keep it short and sweet (if you could call it that). . .

The assault on the rule of law and the fomenting and leveraging of violence and terrorism for political gain by the Democrat Party and its base and operatives in and out of government continues with the epicenter now in Minneapolis and likely to metastasize into a firestorm that will sweep the nation, especially as warmer weather approaches and especially the midterm election push gets into full swing. As history dictates, and should be obvious there can be no parlaying with an intractable enemy that seeks our destruction. And instead of marshaling every possible uniformed agent we can to utterly crush what can only be now described as an armed insurgency and insurrection that seeks not only the prevention of enforcement of federal immigration law but in point of fact, the effective overthrow of the federal government.

And yet President Trump has decided that he needs to make concessions to those that if given half the chance would string him up on a lamp post. I mean that quite literally.

Negotiating with terrorists, whether Islamic in Iran or Gaza, or Marxist/Islamic in America, doesn’t bring peace, it shows weakness and then the terrorism never ends and neither do the negotiations.
Ceding on ICE won’t buy peace. And it won’t even change the topic or end the violence.
There are very good arguments for why this administration should make domestic kitchen table economics its larger focus. If it doesn’t do that, the midterm situation may be catastrophic. But it can do that and fulfill core responsibilities like national defense. Immigration was a major reason, perhaps the biggest reason that Trump is here, because it embodies national survival. We can and should kick the can down the road on some global issues which have been too much the focus lately, but this is a primal issue which is why the Democrats have gone to the mattresses on it and why retreating on it would be a mistake.
Illegal aliens are the political power behind the ghost districts that Dems use to rig elections and maintain outsized political influence. That’s why it’s the one battle they can’t afford to lose.

The theft of the 2020 election, and everything that made the theft possible primarily both the Fauci/Chi-Com biowarfare, lockdowns, erasure of the most basic election voting integrity measures, and the George Floyd race riots that resulted from it and the J-6 Pelosi/Deep State-engineered J-6 fake "insurrection" put a giant sucking wound into the heart of whatever remains of our Republic as it is, but what we are witnessing here and now really is for all the marbles. They know it, and are surely acting like it and we better start doing the same right now, or else I fear that we are a dead nation walking . . . mostly right off a cliff.

Have a great day.

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

“‘You’re Asian, why are you hanging out with Nazis’ … basically calling her a race traitor in a way and saying that they’re going to come for her next.”
Anti-ICE Agitators Targeting Parishioners Outside Cities Church for Second Straight Sunday
Appeasing the Left won't buy peace, it will lead to more riots.
Backing Off On ICE is the Wrong Move
Host Kasie Hunt said, “I’d like to start by just asking what you would say back to President Trump. President Trump said in an interview that a softer touch is required. What do you say to President Trump?
Jacob Frey: 700 ICE Agents Leaving Minneapolis ‘Still Not a De-Escalation’
“I don’t feel that any of the young people that were involved know enough about what’s going on to do or set up a protest because I feel they don’t know what they’re protesting.”
COMEDY GOLD: High School Student Protesting ICE Runs in Front of Car With Trump Flag, Gets Hit
Ramirez faces federal charges for threatening an FBI agent and will appear for arraignment on Wednesday.
Man Faces Charges for Doxing, Threatening FBI Agent and Family.
There are multiple reasons why this strategy isn't likely to work.
Do Democrats Think They Can Skate On ICE To The Midterms?
‘Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide,’ wrote James Burnham more than half a century ago. This ideology is hard at work.
Anti-ICE Activism Represents The Suicide Of Western Civilization
She has to sit in judgment on various Trump administration immigration enforcement cases.
Miranda Devine: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson removed any shred of impartiality by applauding anti-ICE speeches at the Grammys

"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“The 2025 total was the lowest in any fiscal year since 1970, according to historical data from the Border Patrol,” the Pew Research Center finds.
Trump Oversees Lowest Level of Illegal Immigration at Border in Over 50 Years
The debate over DHS funding and changes could lead to a shutdown, affecting sub-agencies such as FEMA, TSA, and the Coast Guard.
Dems Release Their DHS Funding Demands, Including Gutting Immigration Enforcement.
“We will not back down from our mission to remove criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods.” – DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
DHS Confirms Capture of 4,000 Illegals in Minnesota as Drawdown Looms.
In other words, the Trump administration has persuaded Walz and Frey to allow local law enforcement to assist ICE agents, making it easier and safer for them to do their jobs.
Tom Homan Pulls 700 Agents Out of Minnesota. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for Democrats.
Kaufman, Texas, residents didn’t think much of it when Kaufman Solar LLC bought a massive parcel of land in 2022. However, now that a mysterious buyer from the Middle East is looking to purchase an estimated 2,000 acres of land right next door to the planned solar farm to establish a sustainable city, they are worried about the impact.
A Small-Town Immigrant Takeover In Realtime? Local Officials Don’t Want You To Know About It, Residents Fear
"But you still have to be tough."
Trump Says Mass Deportation Campaign Could Use ‘Softer Touch’ After Minneapolis Shootings

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
One Pennsylvania fire company said Tuesday that the local water authority barred it from accessing fire hydrants and instead advised firefighters to let a building burn. The MMP&W Volunteer Fire & Ambulance Co. posted a statement on social media Tuesday, warning that it “should concern everyone” that the Mercersburg Borough’s Water Authority prohibited MMP&W firefighters from using Authority-owned hydrants over water supply concerns. The statement claimed that the Authority called the MMP&W following a Monday incident where the company used an Authority hydrant to fight a barn fire that resulted in several animal deaths and a total loss.
‘Let The Building Burn’: Firemen Say Water Authority Banned Them From Using Hydrants
The current major problems of federal budget pressures and health care affordability for all consumers require action.
Congress Could Fix The Entitlement Fraud Problem Overnight But Won’t
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) had the most fraud, totaling over $1.4 million.
Massachusetts Auditor Discovers Almost $12 Million in Public Assistance Fraud in 2025
The task force aims to tackle billions of dollars in fraud.
Vance Will Lead Anti-Fraud Task Force Against Newsom’s California.

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
What looks like investment today becomes enforcement tomorrow.
Arizona’s Trojan Horse: Qatar City
Sen. Saddam introduces bill to fight ‘Islamophobia’.
Virginia Begins Criminalizing Opposition to Islam

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
President Donald Trump responded to the disappearance of NBC correspondent Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy, on Wednesday, as the family released an emotional video pleading for her return.
Trump Directs All Federal Law Enforcement to Aid Search for Savannah Guthrie’s Mother as Family Releases Emotional Video
If the Utah legislation succeeds, which it’s on track to do, that will leave only four states with alienation of affection laws on the books.
New Mexico And Utah Target ‘Homewrecker’ Laws That Protect Cheaters’ Spouses And Kids
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“I was laid off by The Washington Post today. This is gutting for our readers and our section, but I’m grateful for the 4 years I had to cover sports alongside friends and legends,” wrote Spencer Nusbaum, former Washington Post sports reporter, on Wednesday. The paper shuttered their sports department earlier in the day. Nusbaum added: “Anyways, yeah. This is an incalculable loss for the region and sports journalism. It will be jarring to wake up in the morning — in one of the biggest metro areas in the country — and not have a sports section (and so many other great parts of The Post) to turn to.”
Fired WaPo Reporter’s Tweet Perfectly Sums Up Why Everyone Hates The Media
‘European laws [are] now being exported by the European Union. … American speech is already being affected.’
Europeans Testify On How Europe Is Banning Americans From Saying What They Believe
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH
The Secret Service stopped Routh in September 2024 after spotting him staking out Trump at the golf course.
Ryan Routh Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempting to Assassinate Trump

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
In addition to being consumed with left-wing politicking, the teachers’ unions inflict significant harm on the nation’s children.
The National Miseducation Association
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
In one message, Epstein invited Burns to his infamous island. In another, he floated 'dinner tonit with Woody Allen.'
'Thanks Again for All Your Interest and Advice': William Burns Discussed Job Opportunities, Iran Negotiations With Jeffrey Epstein in Final Days at Obama State Department, Emails Show

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
It’s not a surprise, though, because SCOTUS did the same thing regarding Texas’ new Congressional district map.
Supreme Court Refuses Emergency Request to Stop California’s Democrat-Friendly Congressional Map
Ethical concerns and potential conflicts of interest arise as Najmi holds sway over judicial nominees while connected to a law firm accused of fraud.
Top Mamdani Aide Ali Najmi Linked to Law Firm Accused of Major Fraud.
A developer tied to Newsom allegedly looted millions meant for homeless housing, exposing massive fraud, lax oversight, and cozy political donations.
Newsom Won’t Cut Ties to Homeless Fraudster Firm
POLITICS
We were told for about five years that anyone who ever questions the legitimacy of elections is a terrible, insurrectionist traitor.
Why Are Democrats Already Questioning The 2026 And 2028 Elections?
“I first ran for election to Congress in 2014 and, as I stated then, representing the people in Congress is a service, not a career; and although I continue to have strong support from the people of the Eleventh Congressional District, I believe it is time to contribute to my community, state, and nation in other ways,” Loudermilk said. “Therefore, I have decided not to seek re-election at the end of my current term in Congress.”
GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk Will Not Seek Reelection After 6 Terms in Congress
“As District Attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, and Air National Guard Officer, Clay knows the Wisdom and Courage required to Defend our Country, Support our Brave Military/Veterans, and Ensure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.” Trump wrote. “As your next Congressman, Clay will fight tirelessly to Grow the Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Safeguard our Elections, Champion School Choice, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment.”
Trump Endorses Prosecutor, Military Vet to Fill MTG’s Seat in Georgia’s 14th District
Recent migration numbers emphasize how population gains, economic growth, and political power are shifting toward Republican strongholds.
Blue States’ Demographic Nightmare
As politics harden into moral warfare, friendships fray—and only shared prosperity, grounded in pragmatic policy, may yet keep America’s fragile center from collapsing.
Can the Center Hold?
IRAN ON the BRINK?!
A most privileged child of the Iranian elite.
Daughter of Senior Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran Fired From Emory Medical School

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
Hamas terrorist, who murdered 19-year-old hostage Noa Marciano, also eliminated in IDF strikes.
IDF Eliminates Islamic Jihad’s North Gaza Commander, Targets Hamas-Nukhba Commander
MADURO TAKEN DOWN
Saab, a Colombian-Venezuelan businessman, is pretty well known as Maduro's primary money launderer, front man, and financial fixer, as well as one of Maduro's closest confidants.
Huge: Another Major Member of the Maduro Regime Arrested
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president ever, met with President Trump on Wednesday afternoon in an encounter largely described as amiable. The meeting followed an entire year’s worth of Petro boasting a fierce and highly controversial hostile stance toward President Trump.
Gustavo Petro Celebrates Trump Meeting: ‘We Didn’t Hit or Scratch Each Other’
“Trump and his ‘Donroe Doctrine’ are making Petro great again.”
How Trump Made the Colombian Left Great Again
Armed men are believed to have broken into the residence and killed the two women.
Two relatives of Mexico's federal education minister found murdered in their home
A targeted operation at "Burj Lasana," in Area B, near Wadi Haramiya, recovered Crusader- and Byzantine-era items from a villa built inside the site.
Civil Administration recovers dozens of looted artifacts from West Bank site
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
In 2002, Newsom’s mother, Tessa, was dying of cancer. She called her son, leaving a voicemail. If he wanted to see her one more time, he would have to visit within the week because she was planning on committing assisted suicide, The Washington Post reported.
Gavin Newsom Admits The Bitter Truth About Assisted Suicide After Watching His Mother Kill Herself (She realized what she spawned? - jjs)
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The moon’s weird ravioli shape is thought to be caused by the accretion of dust and ice from the nearby rings along Atlas’s equator.
One of Saturn’s many weird moons
The paper is an excellent summary of practically all the research that has been done in space and on the ground studying the impact of the harsh environment of space on reproduction. It notes above all that we really know very little despite this research, because the risks to the newborn have precluded direct study.
A nice summary of all space-based research of reproduction in space
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The arrest raises concerns about the stability and bias of activist judges in positions of power.
LGBT pervert Activist Judge Charged With ‘Official Oppression.’
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Likely 2028 candidate gets dragged by far-Left late-night showcase
Why ‘Daily Show’ Just Skewered Gov. Gavin Newsom
It’s ‘Go woke, go broke’ in action
Israeli Telecom Stock Crosses $800 a Share, Making Norway’s Pension Fund, Led by Scooter-Riding Wokester, Look Foolish for Divesting

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1 FIRST.

Posted by: GigantorX at February 05, 2026 06:49 AM (8p2Gi)

2 Thirsty Thursday

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 06:51 AM (gbOdA)

3 Ramirez, who will appear in court for arraignment late Wednesday afternoon, has a criminal history involving multiple felonies and misdemeanors, including domestic battery, burglary, and mob action.

My guess is about 1 out of 3 of the protesters (hahaha) you see in Somaliland have the same wrap sheet as Ramirez.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 06:57 AM (gbOdA)

4 Yes, and Portland ICE is a good example.

They wrestled with Antifa like an older brother. That taught the left they could game the fight, throw a few punches, get thrown back, play "I'm not touching you!" games with armed police without consequence.

Posted by: Fen at February 05, 2026 06:58 AM (ciYHQ)

5 Rand Paul is a fucking dork. I liked his dad better.

Kentucky Senate primary is heating up. Hoping we can cut the Mitch McConnell family tree down and burn the roots. Trump should have cleaned that toilet out in his first term.

Posted by: GigantorX at February 05, 2026 06:58 AM (KEcfS)

6 BOING!

Willowed:

Nancy Guthrie kidnapped by SIL?????????

https://tinyurl.com/msyht8vs

I'm assuming this is no longer about a ransom.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2026 06:59 AM (cf0m3)

7 Good morning, everyone! Willowed from previous thread.

President Bukele talking about the restoration of schools in El Salvador. God willing, this continues on after he leaves office:

https://x.com/i/status/2019210714582319432

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2026 07:00 AM (7xrfc)

8
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 05, 2026 07:02 AM (tljrc)

9 There's dynamite.

And there's... Yemenite:

https://tinyurl.com/yhhfdnkz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2026 07:03 AM (cf0m3)

10 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2026 07:05 AM (jtM2q)

11 The Democrat demands have already sparked opposition from Republicans. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) has already declared that requiring judicial warrants, rather than administrative warrants, for immigration enforcement actions is dead on arrival. “That is a road that we cannot or should not go down,” Johnson said.

The Immigration Act of 96 (Billy BJ Clinton) explicitly moves most "expedited removal" cases out criminal and civil courts as almost any Immigration Agent has the authority to ask for the illegal alien to be returned to their home country.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 07:05 AM (gbOdA)

12 She has to sit in judgment on various Trump administration immigration enforcement cases.
Miranda Devine: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson removed any shred of impartiality by applauding anti-ICE speeches at the Grammys

I wonder what the response of SCOTUS would be if when Brown 45, in any issue where Leftist dogma is anticipated to take center stage in xer opinion, if those arguing a case before the court would just blow off any questions by Brown 45, waving off xer word salad and pointless questions with a "whatever, you're not a judge you're an activist" and move on.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 07:07 AM (a4flb)

13 So, illegal aliens can arrive en masse by the millions, but can only be deported singly, after federal authorities negotiate some sort of byzantine legal obstacle course, eh?

“… you can be sure someone wants it that way”

FDR, on “coincidences” in Politics.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 05, 2026 07:09 AM (VRkwH)

14 Kentucky Senate primary is heating up. Hoping we can cut the Mitch McConnell family tree down and burn the roots. Trump should have cleaned that toilet out in his first term.

Its KY. You can bet the drunken hill scoggin will continue the legacy of sending retards, lunatics and flakes to Babylon DC.

Represent!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 07:10 AM (a4flb)

15 In another recent case, federal prosecutors in Chicago, Illinois, charged foreign nationals in a massive Medicare fraud scheme involving more than $1 billion in false claims submitted using stolen identities and fraudulent medical orders.

Round up their families, their pets, and anyone they every sent money to and put them in public stocks.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

16 Hi, I’m Sally Struthers, here today asking for your support in saving a Washington Post Journalist from starvation. For as little as 65¢ a day YOU can keep a struggling former WaPo journo from having to dip into their trust funds

Please, call the number below

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2026 07:16 AM (6mlHc)

17 I'm not sure what to think about the situation with illegals and immigration enforcement. On the one hand I think Trump dislikes bad press, so he'd do whatever to keep that to a minimum. On the other hand I don't think he'd completely stop the repatriation efforts.

I could see where Minneapolis might have really gone south and created a huge problem for the administration.

But, I also think the various media outlets are parsing what they're telling the public about what is, and what isn't the situation in MN. I think ICE is still there, will continue to be there and will continue to round up illegals there. Maybe without all the fanfare.

Bigger issue continues to be the judiciary and their horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2026 07:17 AM (jtM2q)

18 The fat kid that got run over needs to work a salad in now and then.

Fat Bitch.

Posted by: Lardass Goes Splat at February 05, 2026 07:17 AM (TmfuF)

19 A developer tied to Newsom allegedly looted millions meant for homeless housing, exposing massive fraud, lax oversight, and cozy political donations.

Mike Benz is now arguing that the EU will succeed in crushing free speech in the US by conspiring to hit the social media platforms with bankruptcy levels of coordinated fines and penalties for not exercising hard core censorship.

Big Tech is expected to comply with the EU demands and the Left is confident that the 95% of the voting public who represent those who don't care one whit about the political theater we here immerse ourselves in, will be blissfully unaware of the outright fraud and corruption that has led them to barely getting by.

They will just blame the Boomers because that will be the only message not censored away.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 07:18 AM (a4flb)

20 I didn’t get the reference at first that the new IRS Form 4547 for the Trump Account is based on Trump’s presidential numbers (45 and 47)!

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2026 07:20 AM (6mlHc)

21 18 The fat kid that got run over needs to work a salad in now and then.

Dude...have you no humanity? Imagine what the driver is dealing with having to get that dent in his car repaired!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2026 07:20 AM (7xrfc)

22 Can the Center hold? "Scorn has been exchanged equally. "

Right. We don't need Cemetery Hill, go ahead and surrender key terrain at Gettysburg so you can star as DUH DAH DUH Both Sides Guy! Master of Equivalence, hovers above the fray (no capes!), able to virtue signal the Wisdom of King Solomon with a Righteous Pose. Perhaps we could sacrifice our left flank to feed your vanity. So sick of this.

Where's my girl? Sorry if the voice grates but the woman is worth her weight in gold

https://tinyurl.com/58an5ewu

Sing it!
The peaceful majority is irrelevant
The peaceful majority is irrelevant
The peaceful majority is irrelevant

Posted by: Fen at February 05, 2026 07:21 AM (ciYHQ)

23 The task force aims to tackle billions of dollars in fraud.
Vance Will Lead Anti-Fraud Task Force Against Newsom’s California.

So basically the Campaign for 2028 has just started.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 07:22 AM (a4flb)

24 ❓WHAT HAPPENED: A Texas judge was arrested and charged with unlawful restraint and official oppression after allegedly handcuffing and detaining a defense attorney in her courtroom.👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Bexar County Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez and defense attorney Elizabeth Russell.

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2026 07:22 AM (6mlHc)

25 Scorn has been exchanged equally...

Posted by: Fen at February 05, 2026 07:23 AM (ciYHQ)

26 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

A prayer for Mrs JJ's complete and speedy recovery.

The last I inquired this was scheduled later in the month so glad to hear it happened sooner.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 07:24 AM (RIvkX)

27 BREAKING: Multiple cast members of The View are mentioned in the Epstein Files.
-Whoopi Goldberg is mentioned nearly 2 dozen times (21).
-Alyssa Farah Griffin 20 times
-Joy Behar 3 times.
-Ana Navarro twice
-Sunny Hostin 0
-Sara Haines 0

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2026 07:24 AM (6mlHc)

28 He told Burns to "come visit" and "bring whomever you please" and offered to send a car. Burns called Epstein "very generous" but said his vacation plans had "shifted" as he had agreed to "go off to join John Kerry in Oman with the Iranians at the end of the week."

Hey yous want to come fuck some kids
Nope I am about to fuck 300 Million Americans

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

29 "Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez"

Really? What a cartoon.

Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

30 Negotiating with terrorists, whether Islamic in Iran or Gaza, or Marxist/Islamic in America, doesn’t bring peace, it shows weakness and then the terrorism never ends and neither do the negotiations.
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It's always the Art of Deal with Trump.

It is his fatal flaw.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 07:25 AM (RIvkX)

31 Once McConnell is dead or incapacitated - not retired, but completely out of the picture - we'll get to see what the new era of GOP grift looks like, as Thune will be free to execute on his vision of treacherous cuckoldry.

I'm mildly optimistic about it. The Southern wing of the GOP is not going to be as easy to control for him as it was for McConnell and Barbour, so they will stymie him occasionally, and force him to spread his bribes thinner.

And as bad as McConnell was, he was highly effective during his intermittent stints as America's most powerful Democrat. I don't think Thune has the brains or the influence to deliver for the Dems like he could.

I think the Dems will be weaker in the Thune regnancy, with less ability to determine events.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 05, 2026 07:27 AM (BI5O2)

32 “In November of ’21,” he testified, “the head of the GBI, Vic Reynolds, called me — it’s a matter of record. He told me, ‘We’re not going to investigate. The governor wants me to tell you why we’re not going to investigate.’ I said, ‘Please do.’ Because back in May, he had seen the evidence — video footage, cell phone records, testimony, bank data — all consistent with ballot harvesting. He told me himself it was compelling to be investigated. That was in May of 2021.”

Perdue paused before revealing the rest. “Then, in November, he calls and says, ‘We’re not going to investigate because…I’m a team player. If the governor doesn’t want to investigate, we’re not going to investigate.’”

Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2026 07:28 AM (6mlHc)

33 What a weird life Newsom has had, watching his mother commit suicide, hanging out on the fringes of massive Getty wealth, owning a bar in the Marina as a young man, and then climbing the corruption ladder in Democrat politics. He has no principles, regards sleeping with his best friends wife as just another "mistake", and is married to a woman who repeatedly whored herself out to Harvey Weinstein in hoped of becoming Hollywood famous.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, channeling Paul Harvey at February 05, 2026 07:28 AM (vDXKw)

34 Good morning, JJ and all you good people!

Posted by: Eromero at February 05, 2026 07:29 AM (Lytz7)

35 Surprising no one, Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez is gay and pro-illegal immigration.

Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 07:30 AM (vFG9F)

36 Prayers up for Mrs. Sefton today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2026 07:31 AM (vDXKw)

37 Posted by: Fen at February 05, 2026 07:21 AM (ciYHQ)
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We already have a Fen here, and you ain't her. Maybe consider a new nic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2026 07:33 AM (vDXKw)

38 And as bad as McConnell was, he was highly effective during his intermittent stints as America's most powerful Democrat. I don't think Thune has the brains or the influence to deliver for the Dems like he could.

I think we have to go back forty years to find a non-Democrat Senate Majority leader.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 07:35 AM (a4flb)

39 All right, folks. I am on my way out the door in a few minutes. Wish me luck at the dentist and pray for a speedy recovery for my credit card.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2026 07:35 AM (7xrfc)

40 Nancy Guthrie kidnapped by SIL?????????

https://tinyurl.com/msyht8vs

I'm assuming this is no longer about a ransom.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2026 06:59 AM (cf0m3)
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Holy moly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2026 07:36 AM (XK4p6)

41 Fen has been around for a while and I can tell the difference.

Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

42 All right, folks. I am on my way out the door in a few minutes. Wish me luck at the dentist and pray for a speedy recovery for my credit card.

Can't do anything for the tooth, but while sitting in the dentist's waiting room you could fill out the paperwork towards opening/funding of your own Learing Center.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 07:37 AM (a4flb)

43 But between 2022 and 2023, Biden made several deals with Maduro, including releasing his narco-nephews, who were also in federal prison, easing numerous sanctions, and allowing Saab to walk free as long as he promised to be a good boy. In exchange, Maduro handed over some United States hostages and promised free and fair 2024 elections, which we all know never materialized. Biden got suckered.
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Was Hunter involved? Who bets money changed hands?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2026 07:39 AM (XK4p6)

44 you could fill out the paperwork towards opening/funding of your own Learing Center.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Hm. Possible. But the problem is I'm a white dude so I'll need someone to stand in for me.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2026 07:39 AM (7xrfc)

45 Fen has been around for a while and I can tell the difference.
Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 07:36 AM (vFG9F)
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Still seems rude.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 05, 2026 07:39 AM (XK4p6)

46 >It's always the Art of Deal with Trump.

It is his fatal flaw.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Agreed. He has a fetish for 'deals'.

Posted by: Don Black at February 05, 2026 07:40 AM (hrcIH)

47 The Nancy Guthrie story is wild...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2026 07:40 AM (jtM2q)

48 @MOSSADil
·
1h
🚨 ESCALATION IN THE GULF: Iran Seizes Foreign-Crewed Oil Tankers

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has seized two oil tankers with foreign crews in Gulf waters, claiming the vessels were involved in “fuel smuggling,” according to Iranian media.

Posted by: Don Black at February 05, 2026 07:41 AM (hrcIH)

49 Trump and company need to push harder on, "they are all criminals when they illegally entered America."
The "we're only deporting the worst of the worst" is getting stale.

And don't get me started on the courts illegality.

Echoing others, the foreign policy stuff is nice.
But IDGAF how much "winning" there is "over there" if the left is not being crushed at home.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2026 07:41 AM (HXT0k)

50 Posted by: Huck Follywood, channeling Paul Harvey at February 05, 2026 07:28 AM (vDXKw)
====

Most of what he says about himself is an easily disprovable lie and should be discarded.

Everything he has, has been handed to him by the Party. He is truly a creature of the Party.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 07:42 AM (RIvkX)

51 He didn't "own" jack sh*t.

He was Billy Getty's "partner"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

52 Every human interaction is a form of a deal. The key is learning about leverage and how to use it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2026 07:44 AM (mFPsX)

53 Every human interaction is a form of a deal. The key is learning about leverage and how to use it.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2026 07:44 AM (mFPsX)
=====

The only interaction I want with people who want us dead is casualty counts.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

54 >>The only interaction I want with people who want us dead is casualty counts.

Deals have consequences. Sometimes those consequences include bullets.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2026 07:47 AM (mFPsX)

55 The "we're only deporting the worst of the worst" is getting stale.

That is the public bullshit to deal with petty feelings of squishes and cat collectors, maybe a little over a third being deported are actually part of the "worst of the worst".

The move, I would expect, would be, in one thread, administrative judges are rubber stamping final deportation orders, and in another thread ICE is going through and rounding up whoever is on the list.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 07:48 AM (a4flb)

56 They should move the talks from Turkey to Munich, where such talks take place historically.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

57 “Anyways, yeah. This is an incalculable loss for the region and sports journalism...."

==

Anyways? Great grammar you've got there, Mr. "Journalist."

And aren't we being a bit hyperbolic in declaring any kind of sports journalism is an "incalculable loss," as if it were the Twin Towers coming down all over again. I think the world can live without copious amounts of sports journalists.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2026 07:48 AM (qBdHI)

58 Special prayers for Mrs. Sefton

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2026 07:50 AM (/iXAp)

59 I'm going to outright assume that Tucker Carlson will run for mayor of this Qatar City.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2026 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

60

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 05, 2026 07:50 AM (DDJSl)

61 President Trump calls parents of serviceman who died saving others in Afghanistan , and will receive posthumous Medal of Honor . From "NY Post":

https://tinyurl.com/ucd4eeth

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 07:50 AM (rZCVI)

62 "It will be jarring to wake up in the morning... and not have a sports section"

This will have zero impact on my day, week, month, year, decade, life.

Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

63 The troll is commenting from stolen land!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

64 53 The only interaction I want with people who want us dead is casualty counts.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

It'd be nice if he was the kind of guy who'd just dismissively laugh in their face, Putin-style, and say something like "When I want you dead, you're going to be dead."

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2026 07:51 AM (6Uni8)

65 Now that Pepsi only costs $2.10 a bottle I can afford it! I can even splurge on a $4.25 dollar bag of Doritos!

Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

66 No, you can't have your land back.

Posted by: Billy Eyelash at February 05, 2026 07:53 AM (LRxLn)

67 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 05, 2026 07:49 AM (y582V)

I liked you better when you were eating shit pebbles

Posted by: Halfhand at February 05, 2026 07:53 AM (56/oC)

68
We look like a newspaper.
But we're not.

Posted by: The Washington Post at February 05, 2026 07:54 AM (LRxLn)

69 Good morning again Horde

Thx JJ. Good luck and God bless the Mrs JJ.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2026 07:56 AM (BWnHZ)

70 Pepsi and Doritos have had to drop their prices 15% because Americans sn no longer afford to buy

That is one hell of a spin to deny Trump policies reducing inflation and supply chain / manufacturing costs - like reducing the cost of energy. Then there are a myriad of things that Trump had no influence over, like there being a bumper crop of cereals, and commodity prices for HFCS dropping.

Pepsi and Doritos aren't exactly MAHA or Cost-Conscious compatible items. Maybe with fewer SNAP dollars chasing Most Favored Gluttony Items?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 07:56 AM (a4flb)

71 "We look like a newspaper.
But we're not.
Posted by: The Washington Post"

Pretty soon you will look like a vacant building. Unless Elon takes a liking to you.

Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 07:56 AM (vFG9F)

72 66 Now that Pepsi only costs $2.10 a bottle I can afford it! I can even splurge on a $4.25 dollar bag of Doritos!
Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 07:52 AM (vFG9
Small cocolas in glass bottles were only a nickel. What happened? Inflation.

Posted by: Eromero at February 05, 2026 07:57 AM (Lytz7)

73 I saw Tom Homan interviewed by Laura Ingraham last night. Seems like that’s a win in Minneapolis… they’re getting the criminals handed over by the locals and they’re also deporting any other illegals they happen to encounter. That’s winning to me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2026 07:58 AM (YobFY)

74 Trump is remaining steady if not increasing in the polls.
People have faith in him and his great economy.
Pepsi and Doritos are ghetto food and no need to drop their prices as EBT pays for them.
Lower prices are great for everybody.
Epstein is dead, no one cares anymore.

Posted by: Truth To Assinmyassmominmyass at February 05, 2026 07:58 AM (TmfuF)

75 Small cocolas in glass bottles were only a nickel. What happened? Inflation.
Posted by: Eromero at February 05, 2026 07:57 AM (Lytz7)
====

We still get those imported from Mexico, but more like $2.50 now

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 07:59 AM (RIvkX)

76 "It will be jarring to wake up in the morning... and not have a sports section"

"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child; but when I became an adult, I put away childish things." - Apostle Paul (1C 13:11)

I just thought this would be relevant.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 08:00 AM (a4flb)

77 Back in the day when I lived outside the capitol city, my parents got both the Washington Post and the Washington Star (defunct in 81)

They had competing comics sections on Sundays that we used to read as kids.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2026 08:01 AM (jtM2q)

78 Congress Could Fix The Entitlement Fraud Problem Overnight But Won’t

--

Seriously, did any of us ever expect these people to ever do what's right for the citizens it represents, do what's right for the health and strength of this country of ours? It will never be fixed. They have neither the courage, nor the will, nor the deep concern for America's financial state to ever do anything other than let it all eventually collapse. As long as their bank accounts are stuffed (and they have all become filthy rich off our backs), they are fat and happy, and have no more concern as we lurch further and further left, and further and further on the path to ultimate ruin. Congress will never fix the entitlement problem. They may lose their path to riches...

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2026 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

79 If you watch Trump for any length of time, you'll notice he often picks an unexpected or unpredictable path. I am not talking about 10D space chess, I am talking about merely doing what they don't think you will ever do.

Until you realize that his enemies carefully game these scenarios out before implementing them, and have at their disposal a raft of data, psychological and otherwise, that they use to strike at Trump and therefore us, you are not fit to try to figure out what he might be up to.

They want and need him to do certain things and sometimes he will pick an escape route they thought they had blocked off. It's what he does, and it's how he keeps us and our movement in front of them instead of falling way behind. It is nowhere near a fair fight, Trump just makes it look like one.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 08:02 AM (AveBv)

80 Mist of the time people would feel some but if sorrow for people losing their jobs. It was only a wee bit for former WAPO employees.
However after reading their posts on various social media platforms I'm actively hoping, that like Vietnamese monks , they immolate themselves on the front steps of the WAPO

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2026 08:05 AM (BWnHZ)

81 Praying for all possible blessings for Mrs. Sefton, including quick recovery.

Posted by: Avid Viewer at February 05, 2026 08:05 AM (oftw2)

82 "Scheduled" Praying for you. And she. Love your work.

Posted by: Nato at February 05, 2026 08:05 AM (MNFFT)

83 Posted by: Avid Viewer at February 05, 2026 08:05 AM (oftw2)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 08:06 AM (rZCVI)

84 Most of the time people would feel some but if sorrow for people losing their jobs. It was only a wee bit for former WAPO employees.

I respect the Golden Rule, and because we come from completely different world views, I'm willing to show respect and deference to their perspective in this case.

I will grant them the same level of concern for their newly discover Funemployment as they showed to coal miners who lost their jobs, and those who refused to get the mRNA Kill Shot.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 08:08 AM (a4flb)

85 Morning all. Geez, what a week.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 05, 2026 08:08 AM (xsL4l)

86 The Sham-Wow guy's running for Congress.

They're gonna love his nuts!

Posted by: Delurker at February 05, 2026 08:08 AM (gtcuf)

87 If the Tennessee DA Numbers are extrapolated to the US:

1,630,094 total criminal charges in 2025

164,380 violent offenses

3,087 homicides

119,877 assaults

10,918 sexual offenses

828 child rapes

3,012 aggravated kidnappings

219,876 DUIs

400,445 cases of driving without a license or on suspended/or revoked

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:08 AM (gbOdA)

88 ...they immolate themselves on the front steps of the WAPO
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2026 08:05 AM (BWnHZ)
====

What else are these people good for? They have zero actual needed skills, aptitude, or attitude necessary for productive employment.

Will they suffer? Yes. And that is ok. They deserve it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

89 "Mist of the time people would feel some but if sorrow for people losing their jobs. It was only a wee bit for former WAPO employees."

You can pickup printing presses for free nowadays. All you have to do is haul them off. At one time, a journalist could go get themselves a press and start a newspaper. If people liked it, it was successful.

Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

90 Letitia James is going to be training "legal observers" to chase and harass fed cops.

Elementary school teachers will have as part of the curriculum to instill anti-fed sloganry into the ranks of six-year-olds.

FUCK ICE signage will be everywhere for everyone to see. Teens will have it on their backpacks.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 05, 2026 08:08 AM (KiBMU)

91 Prayers for Mrs JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

92 Prayers for a successful surgery for your wife, J.J.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2026 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

93 What kind of an idiot works for a newspaper like The Washington Post?

What, The Buggy Whip Emporium wasn't hiring?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at February 05, 2026 08:09 AM (TmfuF)

94 Looks like my fingers woke up in the second paragraph. Geez

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2026 08:09 AM (BWnHZ)

95 My hope is that the ICE thing right now is a pivot. Remember - this all started because we found out that the immigrant community, with full support of the state of Minnesota, was robbing the taxpayers wantonly with the undercurrent of "Whaddya gonna do about it, kafir?". So all the illegal happenings were identified, along with the illegal immigrants.

Problem was, the Walz administration and other third parties went on the attack as crybullies. Getting the rank and file to do stupid, dangerous, and even deadly stunts all in the name of "Virtue", as they defined it. So we've been bogged down in weeks of ICE vs. protestors, with the state actively protecting the criminals and threatening to jail (or *wink* *wink* *murder*) federal agents.

And those weeks means the actual fraudsters, whom the state of Minnesota were helping to get away with their crimes, basically were lost in the news from the Fifth Column.

So, take the wins so far on that end, dial it back, then send in the IRS instead. Audit them from the anus to the teeth. We're probably not getting the money back. But we need to stop the bleeding, and identify the human cancers that enabled the theft and fraud.

Posted by: Another Anon at February 05, 2026 08:11 AM (4h45B)

96 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

97 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2026 08:11 AM (77rzZ)

98 Good morning kids. As the spouse is going into hospital this morning for a scheduled surgical procedure, I'll have to keep it short and sweet (if you could call it that). . .

I pray that her procedure is short and sweet and the recovery time matches.

Godspeed, Mrs. Sefton

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

99 You can’t build a Qatar City on stolen land.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2026 08:13 AM (77rzZ)

100 Letitia James is going to be training "legal observers" to chase and harass fed cops.

I need to market a rear-bumper attached caltrop dispenser that anyone with a dark SUV and an Amazon Prime account can get.

FUCK ICE signage will be everywhere for everyone to see. Teens will have it on their backpacks.

Too bad the teens are too illiterate to know what it means.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 08:13 AM (a4flb)

101 The WaPo has been the paper of the Democrat Party since it's founding. That's not hyperbole, its historical fact.

Their mission was to shape narratives and opinions in favor of Democrat goals and to do everything possible to harm anyone who tried to challenge Democrats. A prime example would be acting as a mouthpiece for the intel community for the Russia hoax.

I feel no need to waste an ounce of my compassion for people who spent their careers trying to harm me. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2026 08:13 AM (mFPsX)

102 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2026 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

103 Prayer up, JJ.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2026 08:14 AM (77rzZ)

104 Today is Chocolate Fondue Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2026 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

105 Scott Johnson wrote a very cruel takedown of the next Minnesota governor this morning.

It reminded me to say a prayer for VDH, patron of cruelty, for his complete and speedy recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

106 Fired? Like from a cannon?

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 08:15 AM (AveBv)

107 Praying for you, for her, and for those treating her, JJ.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at February 05, 2026 08:15 AM (F9oQN)

108 Prayers to Mrs. JJ for a successful procedure and recovery!

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2026 08:15 AM (qBdHI)

109 The Jacuzzi people have a mighty fine advertising budget.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 05, 2026 08:15 AM (gm9Sb)

110 But we need to stop the bleeding, and identify the human cancers that enabled the theft and fraud.

Just walk into the House a/o Senate Chambers in Babylon DC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 08:15 AM (a4flb)

111 And now for something completely different. Otter ( but not the kind Nurse ratchet prefers ) to seek human remains in water. Story from
Florida and the "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/2sjkwskn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 08:16 AM (rZCVI)

112 101 FUCK ICE signage will be everywhere for everyone to see. Teens will have it on their backpacks.

Too bad the teens are too illiterate to know what it means.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 08:13 AM (a4flb)

Woke Left-Wing pro wrestling show AEW ("All Elite Wrestling") had one of their wrestlers lead the entire arena in a "FUCK ICE" chant last night.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2026 08:16 AM (6Uni8)

113 I’m glad the kids are into fucking ice for a change.
— the chicken

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2026 08:16 AM (77rzZ)

114 President Trump calls parents of serviceman who died saving others in Afghanistan , and will receive posthumous Medal of Honor .

------

I don't if Brandon ever made calls like that. Lord, I hope not.
If my stepson died in one of our ridiculous wars and the President called to say "your son Beau died a hero, fighting for American trunaliminiprazure! Nobody could bring home 10% like Beau could, jack," I would definitely be buying a new phone once the Secret Service finished questioning me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 05, 2026 08:17 AM (BI5O2)

115 Corporate DEI index sees 65% drop in participation from Fortune 500 companies

It was all a lie from Day 1.
There was never any data that shows Diversity improves performance and stock.
NEVER
EVER

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

116 Bill Clinton kept a bucket of fuck ice wherever he went.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 05, 2026 08:19 AM (BI5O2)

117 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

118 Anyone else pissed off about getting Heidi bowled by nascar?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at February 05, 2026 08:19 AM (WQDw6)

119 91 Letitia James is going to be training "legal observers" to chase and harass fed cops.

Elementary school teachers will have as part of the curriculum to instill anti-fed sloganry into the ranks of six-year-olds.

FUCK ICE signage will be everywhere for everyone to see. Teens will have it on their backpacks.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 05, 2026 08:08 AM (KiBMU)

Now all but a small number of the craziest anti-ICE peaceful protestors in ultra-close proximity to ICE officers, will wear PRESS- or LEGAL OBSERVER-blazoned clothing or large patches.

For optics, the left still needs a few 'unaffiliated local grassroots peaceful protestors' on the forward edge of the riot area. Who if chased by ICE will retreat into a very-nearby group of fake-press and fake-legal observers, who Tish and Antifa hope ICE will beat into pulp.

It's always all about the optics.

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2026 08:19 AM (5rh/l)

120 I’m amazed that any newspaper survives at this point. Back in the 90s and even early 2000s, we used to get two papers delivered every day: the local paper and the LA Times.

Now… no way I’d pay for any paper. I won’t even pay for online stuff. If there’s a paywall I skip it…. How do newspapers survive?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2026 08:20 AM (YobFY)

121 J.J.

Prayers ascending. May you two have a smooth path to recovery going forward.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

122 Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2026 08:19 AM (5rh/l)

The peaceful ones are there to communicate to the violent ones where to go before (or while) getting violent. They also form a curtain to slow down agents and protect the destructors.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 08:22 AM (AveBv)

123 LinusVanPelt

They are / were subsidized with tax-payer money. And to launder NGO money from taxpayers.

Closing USAID was a masterstroke.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

124 Lol @ sympathy for WaPo Marxists losing their jobs. It's not even close to justice. If Bezos had them lashed to the prow of an icebreaker and sent to the Arctic, we'd be talking business.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 05, 2026 08:22 AM (BI5O2)

125 I’ve convinced myself that it’s time to nuke the filibuster. Yes, the shitlibs will later use that to ram through all their lunacy and that will be painful. But, it could destroy the democrat party. There shit is so unpopular and destructive that the will get destroyed in the next election. It will be giving them the rope to hang themselves.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 05, 2026 08:23 AM (/DR63)

126 Gref

Good morning. Hope we eventually launch three, and get back three, NASA astronauts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

127 About Nascar. So glad Ryan Preece won. It was a clusterfark of a race though. Thank God we have FS2 however.

We raced with Ryan back in the day at Stafford. Pitted next to him. Once, back in the 2000's I believe, we killed our motor and he loaned us one of his motors for the race. It was very nice and he was a sweet kid. He was just a kid back then. His wife Heather DesRosiers was also a racer in the division. Well, she wasn't his wife back then though, but they were very close back then.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 05, 2026 08:24 AM (BCuCF)

128 I had to update my spam filters yesterday as I was getting 50 emails a day from various GOP and political orgs.

Not sure where they got my info from as I've never registered, signed up for or donated to any political cause.

But MAN was it getting annoying.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

129 My local rag is owned by the Media News Group which is owned by a hedge fund . It is published out of a city 50+ miles away , with no real office in this city. Very leftist and the stories are generally late. Wouldn't be surprised to see the hedge fund pull the plug

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2026 08:24 AM (BWnHZ)

130 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2026 08:20 AM (YobFY)

I don't know how it's doing financially, but I prefer reading the "NY Post" on paper instead of online. I don't get it everyday, but I like the feel of paper and I prefer doing the word search in the paper instead of electronically . Spouse prefers the crossword puzzle that way as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 08:25 AM (rZCVI)

131
AMA Now Says 'Evidence Is Insufficient' for Trans Surgeries

I hope AMA leaders have to go suck dicks at the bus station to pay their legal bills.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

132 If Bezos had them lashed to the prow of an icebreaker and sent to the Arctic, we'd be talking business.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 05, 2026 08:22 AM (BI5O2)

Bezos: Today you guys are going to be Ice Breakers!

Them: Yayyyy

Bezos: No no, not that kind.

Them: Booooo

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 08:25 AM (AveBv)

133 It's also, National Pork Rind Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2026 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

134 Having Minnesota law enforcement cooperation allows ICE and CBP to reduce the amount of agents needed to protect themselves rather than just doing enforcement. The reduction also lessens the rioting. I don't see this as a loss or backing down.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 05, 2026 08:26 AM (0KSrI)

135 Woke Left-Wing pro wrestling show AEW ("All Elite Wrestling") had one of their wrestlers lead the entire arena in a "FUCK ICE" chant last night.

Consistent with Francis Schaeffer's "Line of Despair" in the book "The God Who is There" where the ills of society eventually are adopted by the church, I remember seeing "Black Lives Matter" banners on the exterior of Big Box "Churches".

Fully expecting that what happened in the arena will be faithfully reproduced at a number of Big Box Sunday morning performances.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 08:26 AM (a4flb)

136 I’ve convinced myself that it’s time to nuke the filibuster. Yes, the shitlibs will later use that to ram through all their lunacy and that will be painful.

------

Even that argument carries no weight anymore. The GOP will never force them to use a filibuster again - the next Democrat Congress with a Democrat President will be 100% dedicated to repairing the damage to the Uniparty. The GOP will be VERY "receptive," IYKWIMATYD.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 05, 2026 08:26 AM (BI5O2)

137 Nascar is using Bubba Wallace, the guy who tried to destroy the sport as racist because of a garage door pulldown, as one of their poster children.

I will give the sport very little time because they push a man who hates me as their face.

Owt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

138 I switched internet providers a couple weeks ago and within 48 hours I started getting bombed with spam calls and e-mails. The farking bagstards immediately sold my info.

Posted by: Delurker at February 05, 2026 08:27 AM (gtcuf)

139 AMA Now Says 'Evidence Is Insufficient' for Trans Surgeries

I hope AMA leaders have to go suck dicks at the bus station to pay their legal bills.
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

Simple death penalty for the abuse and destruction of children would suffice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

140 Sponge

One of the people in my close circle is running in a local election. She filed yesterday. I slippered her her first cash campaign donation. Told her to win!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

141 Simple death penalty for the abuse and destruction of children would suffice.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Millstone
Rope
Ocean

Some assembly required

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

142 And I wouldn't call the NY Post left leaning really. It has lots of anti Mamdani articles and op eds and it is very clear that Madami is a communist and an anti semite and is doing a terrible job.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 08:28 AM (rZCVI)

143 Having Minnesota law enforcement cooperation allows ICE and CBP to reduce the amount of agents needed to protect themselves rather than just doing enforcement. The reduction also lessens the rioting. I don't see this as a loss or backing down.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 05, 2026 08:26 AM (0KSrI)

It's more of Minnesota finding out and needing to actually protect its citizens more than anything else.

They're seeing the writing on the wall that says a vast majority of Americans support ICE and immigration inforcement.

Americans like law and order, it turns out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

144 *enforcement.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

145 Corporate DEI index sees 65% drop in participation from Fortune 500 companies

It was all a lie from Day 1.
There was never any data that shows Diversity improves performance and stock.
NEVER
EVER

Posted by: r hennigantx

In fact, the opposite is true. Companies that have embraced DEI and climate goals have under-performed by a wide margin.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2026 08:29 AM (0U5gm)

146 Millstone
Rope
Ocean

Some assembly required
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

I find your terms acceptable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

147
In fact, the opposite is true. Companies that have embraced DEI and climate goals have under-performed by a wide margin.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2026 08:29 AM (0U5gm)

"Wait.....what?!?"

- - - - - - - Bud Light

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

148 138 Nascar is using Bubba Wallace, the guy who tried to destroy the sport as racist because of a garage door pulldown, as one of their poster children.

I will give the sport very little time because they push a man who hates me as their face.

Owt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

Expect even more of that now, because his team owner, Michael Jordan, just ripped NASCAR a new asshole and made them his bitch in court.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2026 08:30 AM (6Uni8)

149 There shit is so unpopular and destructive that the will get destroyed in the next election. It will be giving them the rope to hang themselves.

Explain how that strategery worked so well for Virginia after observing Illinois, California and NYC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 08:30 AM (a4flb)

150 FenelonSpoke

Do you get the feeling that local NYC unions are saying "No Way" to the new mayor, and are underperforming to undermine him and show him who has the real power?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

151 Now that Pepsi only costs $2.10 a bottle I can afford it! I can even splurge on a $4.25 dollar bag of Doritos!
--
Just a total coincidence that SNAP restrictions banning the purchase of junk food and soda with EBT went into effect on 1/1/26.

If only there was some sort of economic model which shows the relationship between supply and price ....

LOL, our troll was trolling over the price of eggs this time last year.

OTOH, my Community Coffee has gone from around $16 to $21 a pound in the last 6 months or so, sad.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2026 08:31 AM (HXT0k)

152 >>>Frey said, (Trump) is right that a softer touch has been required, the drawdown of both federal agents as well as the implementation of body cameras, is obviously a step in the right direction. That being said, the continued presence of 2000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not de-escalation."

The last sentence is pure outrage-incitement propaganda. He and Walz never give any specific reasons why ICE outnumbering Minneapolis PD is, as they imply, bad. So the hell what if one group of law enforcement outnumbers another. Are they in gun battles with each other for control of the entire city? Do smaller towns and cities complain when after some heinous local crimes, FBI, ATF, and other FED LEO outnumber their cops?

The anti-ICE whining by mayors and governors like Frey and Walz is pure BS.

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2026 08:31 AM (5rh/l)

153 150 Explain how that strategery worked so well for Virginia after observing Illinois, California and NYC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 05, 2026 08:30 AM (a4flb)

It's frustrating how so many people still make the mistake of assuming that the majority of people are rational and will want sensible policies when at least the last 20 years have shown that no, most people do NOT want that, and are idiots.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2026 08:32 AM (6Uni8)

154 If Savannah Guthries’ mothers abductors are illegals watch it disappear from the news.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at February 05, 2026 08:32 AM (jZ3ZM)

155 Thune, Lankford, Barroso a confederacy of dunces carefully forming words of believability for the boobs and rubes; detestable rump swabs. Black mail them.

Posted by: kingsman at February 05, 2026 08:33 AM (ehY6c)

156 So the AMA finally figures out that chopping up perfectly healthy children isn’t helpful?? I give them zero credit for this snippet of common sense….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2026 08:33 AM (/iXAp)

157 > Having Minnesota law enforcement cooperation allows ICE and CBP to reduce the amount of agents needed to protect themselves rather than just doing enforcement. The reduction also lessens the rioting. I don't see this as a loss or backing down.
Posted by: Ben Had
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It's my understanding there is no "national" agreement on what level of cooperation there should be between city/state law enforcement and the Feds looking to detain and deport an illegal already set to be removed.

No?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2026 08:33 AM (jtM2q)

158
Expect even more of that now, because his team owner, Michael Jordan, just ripped NASCAR a new asshole and made them his bitch in court.
Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2026 08:30 AM

Although I don't understand the whole thing, I believe what Jordan did was a good thing. I don't think Mike is pushing the race thing as he usually avoids that shit as he knows white people bring the money in barrels when they like something.

Bubba owes me an apology. Nascar owes me an apology.

They'll never do it. I'll never be back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

159 Homan got a definite win in Minnesota. While he drew down the # of ICE agents I'm sure he put the fear of losing federal $ and other assistance in the local pols. They buckled.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2026 08:34 AM (BWnHZ)

160 Anti-ICE Agitators Targeting Parishioners Outside Cities Church for Second Straight Sunday
“‘You’re Asian, why are you hanging out with Nazis’ … basically calling her a race traitor in a way and saying that they’re going to come for her next.”
Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 03:00pm
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First reporting I have seen the left CONTINUES TO ATTACK CITIES CHURCH!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

161 fwiw Megyn Kelly has Ashleigh Banfield on yesterday, saying she has it from rock-solid impeccable sources that the FBI believes the Guthrie kidnapper is the son-in-law.

Posted by: Delurker at February 05, 2026 08:34 AM (gtcuf)

162 New jobless claims 231k vs 200 k expected. Sure the Dems will scream , but the new laws will start seeing an impact about now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2026 08:35 AM (BWnHZ)

163 Next time someone barfs up "Diversity Is Our Strength," ask them to go to a soda fountain and make a Diverse Drink. Take their large cup, press it up against the first dispenser for half a second. Then the next. Then the next. Cola. Diet Cola. Fanta. Lemon Lime. Tea. Rootbeer. Repeat until full.

Then make them drink it.

Posted by: Another Anon at February 05, 2026 08:36 AM (4h45B)

164 Use proton mail. Keeps it lean and clean.

Posted by: kingsman at February 05, 2026 08:36 AM (ehY6c)

165 Smell the Glove

Still seeing a lot of help wanted ads. At Restaurants. The press may be qualified, but likely need some OJT to care about customers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:37 AM (u82oZ)

166 Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

That is a possibility, but not having any background in local government at any job doesn't help. If he were smart , he'd call up Cuomo or Dinkins and say "How did you handle big snows or trash removal?" it diesnt help that much of his staff are all in on communism and haven't had much practical experience either .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 08:37 AM (rZCVI)

167 159 Although I don't understand the whole thing, I believe what Jordan did was a good thing. I don't think Mike is pushing the race thing as he usually avoids that shit as he knows white people bring the money in barrels when they like something.

Bubba owes me an apology. Nascar owes me an apology.

They'll never do it. I'll never be back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

I might agree, if Mike fires Bubba.

But Bubba wanted to be Kolin Krapperdick 2.0, a mixed boy trying way to hard to prove he's "really" black by pulling an entire deck of race cards.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2026 08:37 AM (6Uni8)

168
OTOH, my Community Coffee has gone from around $16 to $21 a pound in the last 6 months or so, sad.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2026 08:31 AM (HXT0k)

It's the tariffs, man. Orange Man Bad. America just needs to understand it needs to take it in the ass for eternity so the rest of the world can implement it's socialism. You should hate Trump.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

169 For democrats it is either “We won.” Or “They cheated.”

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 05, 2026 08:38 AM (xvV+O)

170
Thoughts and prayers, J.J.

Posted by: Auspex at February 05, 2026 08:39 AM (Y8DZL)

171 Sunny, clear, high 68. Yeah it's all I have. Pity me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

172 WHO WAS INVOLVED: Bexar County Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez and defense attorney Elizabeth Russell.
Posted by: SMOD at February 05, 2026

***
"Speedlin" Gonzalez . . .?

The usual comment is "You can't make this stuff up." Well, you could . . . but who would believe it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 05, 2026 08:39 AM (wzUl9)

173 127 Gref

Good morning. Hope we eventually launch three, and get back three, NASA astronauts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

Hi Salty, please stop passing huge blocks of cold air along to us south of you!

Artemis 2 will eventually launch. But the latest hydrogen gas leaks are inexcusable in my judgement. If the troops in Florida couldn't make a fix in over two years after the leaks on Artemis 1, it's pathetic. I cannot recall H2 leaks at the pad-rocket fueling interface delaying launch during Shuttle Program, If there were some, it wasn't many and none in the final 10 years of Shuttle.

H2 sealing at cryogenic temperatures is not rocket science. It's been done successfully in industry and spaceflight for many decades.

Have a great day!

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2026 08:40 AM (5rh/l)

174 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 08:37 AM (rZCVI)

Sorry; Not Dinkins; He died. Eric Adams.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 08:40 AM (rZCVI)

175 163 New jobless claims 231k vs 200 k expected. Sure the Dems will scream , but the new laws will start seeing an impact about now
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2026 08:35 AM (BWnHZ)

In January 2025, initial jobless claims in the U.S. totaled 209,000 for the week ending January 24.
I think Jan is always a high month as people look at the year budget and decide they did not need that second assistant bookkeeper.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

176 Miranda Devine: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson removed any shred of impartiality by applauding anti-ICE speeches at the Grammys
_____

I see nothingk!

- Chief Justice Sgt Roberts-Schultz

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 05, 2026 08:40 AM (Dv3i1)

177 I've ready the NY Post daily for decades.

Murdoch hasn't totally neutered it, so it does have coverage and commentary you can't find in any major newspaper.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (dtajH)

178 H2 sealing at cryogenic temperatures is not rocket science. It's been done successfully in industry and spaceflight for many decades.

Have a great day!
Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2026 08:40 AM (5rh/l)

Even the Germans almost perfected it.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

179 Sunny, clear, high 68. Yeah it's all I have. Pity me.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

69 today, 79 tomorrow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

180 Use proton mail. Keeps it lean and clean.
Posted by: kingsman at February 05, 2026

***
I've been using the free version since 2018-19.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (wzUl9)

181 Ketaji is the court jester.

Posted by: kingsman at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (ehY6c)

182
Four Years Ago.....

Canadian Government and Media Now Branding Freedom Convoy Truckers -- What Else? -- an "Insurrection"

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (AveBv)

183 My local walmart has several racks of Frito-Lay chips by the front entrance now.

That's their high impulse buy area.
That's mostly where they put the seasonal/holiday items.

Or items of high supply.
Like, it was the home of Budweiser products just after that crash-out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2026 08:42 AM (HXT0k)

184 Chief Safety Officer at Waymo says the company employs remote vehicle operators in the Philippines.

ha

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

185 Martini Farmer, each state is going to decide what level of cooperation . Texas has removed more illegals than any other state and we don't see rioting. Minnesota was as much about the fraud as the illegal removal made possible by deep blue policy and outside money funding that behavior.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 05, 2026 08:42 AM (0KSrI)

186 But Bubba wanted to be Kolin Krapperdick 2.0, a mixed boy trying way to hard to prove he's "really" black by pulling an entire deck of race cards.

Bubba Wallace is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at February 05, 2026 08:43 AM (TmfuF)

187 69 today, 79 tomorrow.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)
=====

*fistbump*

These morons and their snow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)

188 Posted by: Ignoramus at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (dtajH)

Yes; I agree with you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 08:43 AM (ix8EF)

189 185 Chief Safety Officer at Waymo says the company employs remote vehicle operators in the Philippines.

ha

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

Better than in Bangalore, I guess.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2026 08:43 AM (6Uni8)

190 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 05, 2026 08:43 AM (53oGX)

191 Ketanji needs to be impeached for that stunt. And disbarred.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2026 08:44 AM (77rzZ)

192 Illinois will join the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, or GOARN, to counterbalance the federal government’s withdrawal, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Tuesday.

Lock downs coming in 3 2

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

193 Canadian Government and Media Now Branding Freedom Convoy Truckers -- What Else? -- an "Insurrection"
Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (AveBv)

News organizations aren't news anymore. They aren't covered by freedom of the press, it's all free speech. We have no press anymore. They're all propagandists. The only thing that I see can be done with it is revoking their ability to call themselves news organizations. They're not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

194 >>>Miranda Devine: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson removed any shred of impartiality by applauding anti-ICE speeches at the Grammys

I hope no one here believes she will excuse herself from any immigration cases SCOTUS hears.

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2026 08:44 AM (5rh/l)

195 Illinois will join the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, or GOARN, to counterbalance the federal government’s withdrawal, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Tuesday.

Lock downs coming in 3 2
Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

California did the same. We'll see with states 'survive' the next plandemic orchestrated by the WHO.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

196 John Iscariot Roberts won't do a damn thing about Ketanji "Running on Empty" Jackson Brown.

Because he agrees with her.

Posted by: Delurker at February 05, 2026 08:45 AM (gtcuf)

197 Poor Savannah and her family. Mom's gone.

The harebrained scheme went blooey, and the evildoers realized quickly, not just yesterday, that she had to go, and the body never ever found. The nothingness remote mining regions east and south of Tucson offer a billion hiding places for burying a body, and the fact that there are jeep trails crisscrossing it all like a spider web mean that there's little fear that vehicle tracks will provide any clues.

Posted by: M. Gaga at February 05, 2026 08:45 AM (KiBMU)

198 Good morning kids. As the spouse is going into hospital this morning for a scheduled surgical procedure, I'll have to keep it short and sweet (if you could call it that). . .

I pray that her procedure is short and sweet and the recovery time matches.

Godspeed, Mrs. Sefton
Posted by: Sponge

Amen, JJ. What Sponge said. Double.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 05, 2026 08:45 AM (xsL4l)

199 Martini Farmer, each state is going to decide what level of cooperation . Texas has removed more illegals than any other state and we don't see rioting. Minnesota was as much about the fraud as the illegal removal made possible by deep blue policy and outside money funding that behavior.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 05, 2026

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I suspect the organizers of this stuff in TX know that locals carry. They don't care if their useful idiots get killed, of course, but it might make it harder to recruit if the news gets around that if you FA in TX, you FO.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 05, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9)

200 123 Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2026 08:19 AM (5rh/l)

The peaceful ones are there to communicate to the violent ones where to go before (or while) getting violent. They also form a curtain to slow down agents and protect the destructors.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 08:22 AM (AveBv)

Yup.

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2026 08:45 AM (5rh/l)

201 So the AMA finally figures out that chopping up perfectly healthy children isn’t helpful?

Yes - right after a major court judgement.

Funny how an imposing, widespread threat of malpractice can change one's opinion.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 05, 2026 08:46 AM (56/oC)

202 Morning All. God luck to your wife JJ. No fan of Mitch M, but he did save the Supreme Court by keeping out Garland. He also did quick work to Replace Ginsberg before 2020 Election.

But his never trumper crap in 2020 was disgusting

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2026 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

203 Mist of the time people would feel some but if sorrow for people losing their jobs. It was only a wee bit for former WAPO employees.
However after reading their posts on various social media platforms I'm actively hoping, that like Vietnamese monks , they immolate themselves on the front steps of the WAPO
---
As Reagan said, a recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
A depression is when you lose yours.

Which the left inverted under Clinton, "I'm doing fine but I'm worried about the guy down the street" was the worst economy in 50 years.
And they've been running that play since ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2026 08:46 AM (HXT0k)

204 As the spouse is going into hospital this morning for a scheduled surgical procedure, I'll have to keep it short and sweet (if you could call it that). . .
-

"אל נא רפא נא לה"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2026 08:47 AM (3GdZZ)

205 The harebrained scheme went blooey, and the evildoers realized quickly, not just yesterday, that she had to go, and the body never ever found. The nothingness remote mining regions east and south of Tucson offer a billion hiding places for burying a body, and the fact that there are jeep trails crisscrossing it all like a spider web mean that there's little fear that vehicle tracks will provide any clues.
Posted by: M. Gaga at February 05, 2026

***
My regional conservative radio hosts, Walton & Johnson, discussed this today and played the famous clip of Liam Neeson telling his daughter's kidnappers in Taken, "I have a certain set of skills. . . . I will find you. And I will kill you."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 05, 2026 08:48 AM (wzUl9)

206 Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes

Fraud exposed in Maine: $45.6 million in ‘improper payments’ discovered in just ONE YEAR from ONE PROGRAM

“According to multiple reports — African immigrants who do not speak English in many cases and have no experience in health care are allegedly stealing millions of taxpayer dollars from the state by taking a 50-hour course to care for elderly Americans and then billing the government”

“Home care agencies that are essentially just PO boxes that send invoices to the Department of Health and Human Services and get paid — we also have the residential care facilities where actual houses are being operated under the guise of providing care for disabled adults”

“Maine improperly billed $46 million worth of Medicaid payments to the federal government and this was one program.”

https://tinyurl.com/zkdtw7wk

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

207 Texas families can begin applying on Wednesday for new education freedom accounts that provide public funds for private schooling, homeschooling, or other approved expenses, with priority given to students with disabilities and lower-income households.

The program, known as Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA), was created through Senate Bill 2, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law on May 3, 2025. It took effect September 1, 2025, and will distribute money for the 2026-27 school year, capped at $1 billion and 90,000 students overall.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

208 They know it, and are surely acting like it and we better start doing the same right now, or else I fear that we are a dead nation walking . . . mostly right off a cliff.

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"This is about me not enforcing the speaking filibuster Senate Rule to pass the SAVE Act, isn't it." -- John Thune (UniParty -- SD)

/Thune is the Cornyn of Cocaine Glitches ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Would Commies Care If The Minneapolis Paychos Were Killed By Illegals? at February 05, 2026 08:49 AM (0Eh0f)

209 I suspect the organizers of this stuff in TX know that locals carry. They don't care if their useful idiots get killed, of course, but it might make it harder to recruit if the news gets around that if you FA in TX, you FO.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 05, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9)

I received an AI generated cease and desist email from a psycho dude I've never met accusing my wife and I of threatening his son, which we've never really done, especially to him directly, and reminding me that Texas allows for him to kill me if he feels threatened.

I have contacted an attorney.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Brother lived in the Tucson Foothills for awhile. Wealthy area, and the homeowners use to complain about the street lights being too bright. Private people who counted on their alarms and guns to protect. Dark as hell up there.

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2026 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

211 123 Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2026 08:19 AM (5rh/l)

The peaceful ones are there to communicate to the violent ones where to go before (or while) getting violent. They also form a curtain to slow down agents and protect the destructors.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 08:22 AM (AveBv)

Three Layers.

Layer 1 : The loud and obnoxious shouters with signs and bullhorns. They exist to get people's attention so they get close enough to the crowd for Layer 2 to attack. They're bait, and shields.

Layer 2 : The Black-Bloc style thugs, there to get violent.

Layer 3 : Human biomass, which just exists for Layer 2 to fall back and retreat into.

Posted by: XTC at February 05, 2026 08:49 AM (6Uni8)

212 It's "National Shower With A Friend Day" in the "name of conservation."

I don't think The Wifey approves ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Would Commies Care If The Minneapolis Paychos Were Killed By Illegals? at February 05, 2026 08:50 AM (0Eh0f)

213 Brad Karp was the head of Paul Weiss, a huge Left-aligned law firm. Chuck Schumer's brother is a partner.

No longer as Karp's ties to Epstein were revealed.

The revelations are a window into how these elites circle-jerk each other. e.g., Karp got Epstein to introduce his son to Woody Allen to help him break into the movies.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 05, 2026 08:50 AM (dtajH)

214 May GOD guide the hands of the medical team treating JJ Spouse this morning.

Posted by: Eromero at February 05, 2026 08:50 AM (Lytz7)

215 Why did Guthrie and her siblings allow the Mother, on many life threatining medications. to live alone in that big House anyways.

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2026 08:50 AM (YCxFk)

216 126 I’ve convinced myself that it’s time to nuke the filibuster. Yes, the shitlibs will later use that to ram through all their lunacy and that will be painful. But, it could destroy the democrat party. There shit is so unpopular and destructive that the will get destroyed in the next election. It will be giving them the rope to hang themselves.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

I prefer we try the old style filibuster until the Senators exhaust and wet themselves then have a vote, instead of this 'cloture vote' nonsense instead of killing the filibuster. We need Senators who can withstand this style of filibuster and stand and talk for more than 5 minutes rather than the decrepit husks we have now.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 05, 2026 08:51 AM (Dv3i1)

217 News organizations aren't news anymore. They aren't covered by freedom of the press, it's all free speech. We have no press anymore. They're all propagandists. The only thing that I see can be done with it is revoking their ability to call themselves news organizations. They're not.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 05, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

Random thing I thought of recently --
When / why did the concept of "press credentials" come into existence?

Posted by: Doof at February 05, 2026 08:52 AM (B4Se1)

218 Meet Chad Malinowski, a Chicago area nurse. Chad appears to suggest letting ICE agents bleed out and call on nurses to target them. He also says hospitals should fire all MAGA employees because they’re racists.

IDF just kabloooied several people that did just that.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:52 AM (gbOdA)

219 So the CEO and Founder of Netflix, gave 200 million to Kamala in 2024 to defeat Trump.

Now he wants to buy Warners brothers, and cannot understand why Washington is slowing things down?

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2026 08:53 AM (YCxFk)

220 The current filibuster isn't a real filibuster-filibuster.

Posted by: whoopee at February 05, 2026 08:53 AM (Q+gd/)

221 FenelonSpoke

Do you get the feeling that local NYC unions are saying "No Way" to the new mayor, and are underperforming to undermine him and show him who has the real power?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)
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It's either that or fentanyl:

https://tinyurl.com/29kj7znx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2026 08:53 AM (3GdZZ)

222 Why did Guthrie and her siblings allow the Mother, on many life threatining medications. to live alone in that big House anyways.
Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2026 08:50 AM (YCxFk)
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I would like you to explain to my mother and her yenta friends what they should be allowed to do.

Can I have your stuff?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

223 ICE protests are all free therapy. Instead of a shrink's couch and 200 a hour, they make signs for free

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2026 08:54 AM (YCxFk)

224 Call me insensitive, but why does a TV personality's mom warrant this amount of government attention and resources? Would my mom or your mom get the same?

Posted by: Doof at February 05, 2026 08:55 AM (B4Se1)

225 At least a trusted live in Nurse.

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2026 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

226 225. Well said Doof

Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2026 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

227 Jonah

They are paid for that protest. Stop the money, stop the protests.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

228 225 Call me insensitive, but why does a TV personality's mom warrant this amount of government attention and resources? Would my mom or your mom get the same?
Posted by: Doof

But... it's America's sweetheart, Samantha Guthrie!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 05, 2026 08:56 AM (Dv3i1)

229 Guthrie was being cared for by her eldest daughter and her son-in-law (who may be the perp.)

Posted by: Delurker at February 05, 2026 08:56 AM (gtcuf)

230 Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 08:41 AM (AveBv)

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Belatedly saw your response to one of my death cult comments a couple days ago and got a good chuckle (thanks for the reminder and R.I.P. Norm):

“I think about my deathbed a lot. I think I should never have purchased a deathbed in the first place.”

-- Norm Macdonald, on his deathbed, natch

Posted by: ShainS -- Would Commies Care If The Minneapolis Paychos Were Killed By Illegals? at February 05, 2026 08:56 AM (0Eh0f)

231 John Lindsay was elected mayor of NYC as a Republican, and then he f*cked everything up.

But what killed him was getting Manhattan cleared after a blizzard but taking over a week for the boros.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 05, 2026 08:57 AM (dtajH)

232 Posted by: Doof at February 05, 2026 08:55 AM (B4Se1

Because she's a TV personalities mom. It is what it is and no, an unknown person wouldn't get this media attention.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2026 08:57 AM (PFs9e)

233 Why did Guthrie and her siblings allow the Mother, on many life threatining medications. to live alone in that big House anyways.

Old farts have rights too. Mom most likely told her daughter to shove it up her ass when told or asked she needs to downsize to a Death House.

Posted by: Old Fart Who Knows at February 05, 2026 08:57 AM (TmfuF)

234 225 Doof, I think it’s an attempt by Trump to win over at least some of the press.

Won’t work, of course, but it can’t hurt, either.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2026 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

235
Newsom Won’t Cut Ties to Homeless Fraudster Firm

Whaaaaaat?!?! Why?

They give me money!

Posted by: Gavin "5-30W" Newsome at February 05, 2026 08:58 AM (iJfKG)

236 “We just caught another prolific leaker putting our @DHSgov law enforcement at risk as they already face 8,000% increase in death threats against them,” Noem wrote. “I plan to refer this individual to @TheJusticeDept for criminal prosecution. We are agnostic about your standing, tenure, political appointment, or status as a career civil servant—we will track down leakers and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.”

Cigs
Blindfold
M14s

Some assembly required.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

237 Call me insensitive, but why does a TV personality's mom warrant this amount of government attention and resources? Would my mom or your mom get the same?
Posted by: Doof at February 05, 2026 08:55 AM (B4Se1)
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Not insensitive. During a particularly difficult period I asked a friend to smother my mother with a pillow, but she refused, they like each other way more than either of them like me. That's insensitive.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:59 AM (RIvkX)

238 Call me insensitive, but why does a TV personality's mom warrant this amount of government attention and resources? Would my mom or your mom get the same?

Posted by: Doof

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

"You're probably too young to remember the blonde white privilege of Natalee Holloway and JonBenét Ramsey too, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Would Commies Care If The Minneapolis Paychos Were Killed By Illegals? at February 05, 2026 08:59 AM (0Eh0f)

239 I find this at odds with observation:

"The research team found that cannabis usage in older adults was generally associated with larger volumes in several brain regions and better cognitive function in adults ages 40 to 77."

https://tinyurl.com/45nww36j

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 05, 2026 09:00 AM (XvL8K)

240 I’ve convinced myself that it’s time to nuke the filibuster. Yes, the shitlibs will later use that to ram through all their lunacy and that will be painful. But, it could destroy the democrat party. There shit is so unpopular and destructive that the will get destroyed in the next election. It will be giving them the rope to hang themselves.
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That's where I'm at.
A lot of bed-wetting Rs and others (like Kurt Schlicter) are horrified at the idea of ending it.
Afraid of "but what'll stop the Dems if it's gone?!!"

AYFKM?!

You know how close the Dems came to ending the filibuster last time they were in the majority?
2 votes.
Manchin and Sinmena are gone now. All the other votes to nuke it are still there.

But next time, next time they'll be restrained?

The party that is calling ICE the American Gestapo.
The party that cheered the murder of Charlie Kirk.
The party that is promising criminal prosecutions of every immigration agent.
The party that tried to imprison Trump for life.
The party that handed out decade long sentences for "parading."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2026 09:00 AM (HXT0k)

241 Community Coffee has gone from around $16 to $21 a pound in the last 6 months or so, sad."

Hmm. 'round here it's been pretty stable...

"spouse is going into hospital this morning for a scheduled surgical procedure"

Prayers.

Posted by: man at February 05, 2026 09:00 AM (XuXeR)

242 Nope, you're right. Trump has been an EXPERT in the Art of the Deal for nearly half a century, but you definitely know better in this case.

Got it.

Posted by: deadrody at February 05, 2026 09:01 AM (qf6NU)

243 Not insensitive. During a particularly difficult period I asked a friend to smother my mother with a pillow, but she refused, they like each other way more than either of them like me. That's insensitive.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:59 AM (RIvkX)

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That's some good dark humor right there, I don't care who you are.

Posted by: ShainS -- Would Commies Care If The Minneapolis Paychos Were Killed By Illegals? at February 05, 2026 09:01 AM (0Eh0f)

244 Trump's playing a long game. What you'd expect from a real estate developer.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 05, 2026 09:01 AM (dtajH)

245 DHS Reports More Than 180 Vehicle Attacks on Law Enforcement

Hope they all FAFO

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

246 Whoopi Goldberg Requested Epstein Jet Fly Her to Monaco Charity Event

https://tinyurl.com/3rd4pr5f

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

247 Guthrie was being cared for by her eldest daughter and her son-in-law (who may be the perp.)

Posted by: Delurker at February 05, 2026 08:56 AM (gtcuf)

If it turns out to be the son-in-law then not only is he evil but also incredibly galactically stupid… authorities always look at relatives and acquaintances first as they evaluate suspects… would never get away with it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2026 09:02 AM (/iXAp)

248 Call me insensitive, but why does a TV personality's mom warrant this amount of government attention and resources? Would my mom or your mom get the same?"

If they find out it was an illegal, you can bet the attention will go away.

Posted by: fd at February 05, 2026 09:02 AM (vFG9F)

249 Why did Guthrie and her siblings allow the Mother, on many life threatining medications. to live alone in that big House anyways."

How to tell us you don't have elderly infirm yet obstinant parents without telling us...

Posted by: man at February 05, 2026 09:03 AM (XuXeR)

250 Have a great day, everyone.

Spring is on the horizon. Just hang on.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2026 09:04 AM (u82oZ)

251 Doof, I think it’s an attempt by Trump to win over at least some of the press.

Won’t work, of course, but it can’t hurt, either.
Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2026 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

That would actually make it worse, IMO.

Posted by: Doof at February 05, 2026 09:04 AM (B4Se1)

252 Good morning. In a world thst needs John Wayne, all we get is Mary Poppins.

The US Congress is thoroughly corrupt and is why we are on the brink of bankruptcy.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at February 05, 2026 09:04 AM (4b7CV)

253 “And then, of course, President Trump wants same day voting, mail ballots, get rid of these voting machines,” Tuberville said.

“There’s a half a dozen people, whether it’s the House or Senate, Larry, that are up here as we speak, that did not get elected. It was all bogus, because we’ve seen the evidence.”

The GA Senators is my guess.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 09:05 AM (gbOdA)

254 NPR: Is the U.S. heading into a dictatorship? The Atlantic writer Robert Kagan says as Trump violates norms, laws and the Constitution, including his call to nationalize elections, "we're on the edge of the consolidation of dictatorship."

Minneapolis showed that the sundowning pedophile wanna be dictator can be kicked to the curb. There will be some incredibly difficult moments we experience, but people are waking up to the power we have when we stand together.

We need to somehow transition from standing together as a community into standing together as a country. Minneapolis is a spark of hope, I just hope it can catch on everywhere.

NPR has been sane-washing Trumps bullshit since 2015. It's really no surprise they are just now slightly retracting from the sphincter.

This is why I stopped listening to NPR after decades. I couldn't take this anymore. PBS NewsHour has replaced them for me and it's miles better anyway.

If we survive, how many will say we weren't on the brink?
"Trump's in jail now, you were over-reacting. We don't need to change anything." It really worries me.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 05, 2026 09:05 AM (JCZqz)

255 I vote for a President to run the country. I don’t vote for a President to micromanage. I leave that for a President I didn’t vote for.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 05, 2026 09:06 AM (cwGMH)

256 Not insensitive. During a particularly difficult period I asked a friend to smother my mother with a pillow, but she refused, they like each other way more than either of them like me. That's insensitive."

"during a praticularly difficult period"?

How 'bout daily?

Posted by: man at February 05, 2026 09:06 AM (XuXeR)

257 CBS Local Las Vegas -
(via Instapundit, via HotAir, via Redstate)

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Chinese Biolab in Vegas Was Attached to Airbnb, Multiple Renters Sickened. “It’s almost as if the feds under Biden had no problem with Chinese biolabs, which they funded in China, and basically ignored here in America.”

link to RedState -
https://tinyurl.com/4feu2zax

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 05, 2026 09:07 AM (Dv3i1)

258 Has The View discussed Whoopi's Epstein ties yet? I'm sure it was innocent money laundering

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2026 09:08 AM (BWnHZ)

259 If it turns out to be the son-in-law then not only is he evil but also incredibly galactically stupid… authorities always look at relatives and acquaintances first as they evaluate suspects… would never get away with it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2026 09:02 AM (/iXAp)
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At this point, I predict murder/suicide. Just need to find the cold bodies.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2026 09:09 AM (3GdZZ)

260 I watch a ton of true crime shows and it's astounding how many absolute idiots think they're going to get away with it.

Posted by: Delurker at February 05, 2026 09:11 AM (gtcuf)

261 Has The View discussed Whoopi's Epstein ties yet?"

Ok, that's funny right there.

Posted by: man at February 05, 2026 09:11 AM (XuXeR)

262 >"You're probably too young to remember the blonde white privilege of Natalee Holloway and JonBenét Ramsey too, h8r!"
----

it's the White Girl Down phenomenon

tabloid fodder

Posted by: Don Black at February 05, 2026 09:11 AM (hrcIH)

263 Call me insensitive, but why does a TV personality's mom warrant this amount of government attention and resources? Would my mom or your mom get the same?"

Because that’s how the world has always been. Just as long as they don’t ignore your mom completely and do the normal investigation.

Reminds somewhat of the Bible parable of the laborers hired in the morning who agreed to $20 for the day. The owner of the fields decided at almost the end of the work day to hire a few more at the same $20 rate.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 05, 2026 09:12 AM (cwGMH)

264 Why did Guthrie and her siblings allow the Mother, on many life threatining medications. to live alone in that big House anyways.
Posted by: Jonah at February 05, 2026 08:50 AM (YCxFk)
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I would like you to explain to my mother and her yenta friends what they should be allowed to do.

Can I have your stuff?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 05, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)
******
It's crazy that they don't have an IPad that is hooked up to her cameras, ring doorbell and mom's Alexa.
This way you're able to see what's going on inside and outside and talk to any intruder from your location to theirs.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2026 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

265 he old style filibuster until the Senators exhaust and wet themselves
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 05, 2026 08:51 AM

I'm ready for my promotion!

Posted by: Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) at February 05, 2026 09:13 AM (0sNs1)

266 It's crazy that they don't have an IPad that is hooked up to her cameras, ring doorbell and mom's Alexa.

If Asleigh Banfield's reporting is true, someone *did* have that access. And that someone is a prime suspect.

Posted by: Delurker at February 05, 2026 09:14 AM (gtcuf)

267 Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2026 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

I’m a troglodyte and I think that is crazy.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 05, 2026 09:15 AM (cwGMH)

268 The Guthrie situation could be a bungled burglary gone sideways real fast.

Posted by: dantesed at February 05, 2026 09:15 AM (Oy/m2)

269 Community Coffee has gone from around $16 to $21 a pound in the last 6 months or so, sad."

Hmm. 'round here it's been pretty stable...

"spouse is going into hospital this morning for a scheduled surgical procedure"

Prayers.
Posted by: man at February 05, 2026

***
A good reason why I don't buy CC unless it's one cup at one of their few coffee shops here. I've been purchasing Cafe El Morro, $3.80 for 8.8 oz., just over $7 a pound, at Aldi. It's strong and works just as well.

And yes, good thoughts for JJ's wife.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 05, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)

270 162 - OMG, I'll have to go and listen to Megyn. Usually I catch up on the weekends.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 05, 2026 09:16 AM (BCuCF)

271 It's crazy that they don't have an IPad that is hooked up to her cameras, ring doorbell and mom's Alexa.
This way you're able to see what's going on inside and outside and talk to any intruder from your location to theirs."

Or, said elderly parent could go around and knock off/unplug everything from time to time...

Posted by: man at February 05, 2026 09:16 AM (XuXeR)

272 Would the son in law have time to dispose of the body before he returned home?

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 05, 2026 09:16 AM (cwGMH)

273 CBS Local Las Vegas -
(via Instapundit, via HotAir, via Redstate)

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Chinese Biolab in Vegas Was Attached to Airbnb, Multiple Renters Sickened. “It’s almost as if the feds under Biden had no problem with Chinese biolabs, which they funded in China, and basically ignored here in America.”

link to RedState -
https://tinyurl.com/4feu2zax
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 05, 2026 09:07 AM (Dv3i1)

Yeah, this is nothing but pure sabotage and biological warfare in action or in preparation.

Executions of the guilty and traitors and actions like blowing up the 3 Gorges Dam should be taken.

This make Venezuelan drug trafficking look like a grade school prank.

Hopefully, we do something more than send a harshly worded letter.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 05, 2026 09:16 AM (iJfKG)

274 purchasing Cafe El Morro"

Hey - have had that too. It's pretty good, esp. given the $$$.

Posted by: man at February 05, 2026 09:17 AM (XuXeR)

275 If a cartel and Nancy Guthrie's son-in-law are involved . . . could it be possible that the cartel kidnapped her because the son-in-law failed to do something for them?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 05, 2026 09:17 AM (wzUl9)

276 purchasing Cafe El Morro"

Hey - have had that too. It's pretty good, esp. given the $$$.
Posted by: man at February 05, 2026

***
It's like Cafe Bustelo, but cheaper.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 05, 2026 09:18 AM (wzUl9)

277 The Guthrie situation could be a bungled burglary gone sideways real fast.
Posted by: dantesed at February 05, 2026 09:15 AM (Oy/m2)

That was my first thought and they or he took the body with them to dump.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 05, 2026 09:18 AM (cwGMH)

278 Remember:
They don't call Trump a dictator because they believe it.

They call him a dictator to justify their violence.

If Crooks hadn't missed, they'd be selling t-shirts in Times Square celebrating how they "stopped Hitler."

While the rest of the country is under martial law.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2026 09:18 AM (HXT0k)

279 Or, said elderly parent could go around and knock off/unplug everything from time to time...
Posted by: man at February 05, 2026 09:16 AM (XuXeR)
******
Yes, but this alerts you if that happens.
I have this set up on my iPad when my mom got put on medication for her heart.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2026 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

280 Reminds somewhat of the Bible parable of the laborers hired in the morning who agreed to $20 for the day.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Same as in town?

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2026 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

281 Good morning!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2026 09:21 AM (0yjaw)

282 I figured Guthrie or someone related was into some bad shit with bad people.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 09:21 AM (AveBv)

283 277 The Guthrie situation could be a bungled burglary gone sideways real fast.
Posted by: dantesed at February 05, 2026 09:15 AM (Oy/m2)

I'm wondering if it is Cartel related.. They are big on Bitcoin...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 05, 2026 09:21 AM (I1bT3)

284 It's like Cafe Bustelo"

Aren't they from the same wholesaler? Ever try the espresso? Really good...

Posted by: man at February 05, 2026 09:21 AM (XuXeR)

285 Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2026 09:21 AM (0yjaw)

Morning Lizzy, always good to see you, you little oyjaw.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2026 09:23 AM (AveBv)

286 Interesting fact, found on X:

Bad Bunny's label, Rimas Entertainment, was founded by Rafael Ricardo Jiménez Dan, a former vice minister in Hugo Chávez's Venezuelan government.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2026 09:23 AM (0yjaw)

287 >Would the son in law have time to dispose of the body before he returned home?
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depends on the method used

Posted by: Don Black at February 05, 2026 09:23 AM (hrcIH)

288 Yes, but this alerts you if that happens."

Yeah, and that's when I was out of town/at dinner/out/mowing/something.

It's like having a pair of adult sized toddlers...

Posted by: man at February 05, 2026 09:23 AM (XuXeR)

289 Kurt Schlicter argues that ending the filibuster will lead to war.
That it'll nationalize elections into "all or nothing" where the loser will have to resort to war.
Because the winner will pass egregious legislation the loser cannot abide.

Yeah, dumbass. We're already there.

But let's slip just a bit slower into the endless night because we can't afford the fight.

Midterms are coming up ....
And then there's the general ....
But next year, for sure, we'll fight ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2026 09:23 AM (HXT0k)

290 PDT is speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast.

I believe Trump is a compassionate man and choses to make personal phone calls often, not just in high profile cases.
If S.G. told her co-workers that she was grateful for his support it will be difficult for said co-workers to say differently on air.

Posted by: old chick at February 05, 2026 09:24 AM (F3Dlr)

291 Kidnapping is big business in Mexico. I think this calls for Denzel Washington to get involved.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 05, 2026 09:24 AM (cwGMH)

292 Remember:
They don't call Trump a dictator because they believe it.

They call him a dictator to justify their violence.

If Crooks hadn't missed, they'd be selling t-shirts in Times Square celebrating how they "stopped Hitler."

While the rest of the country is under martial law.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2026 09:18 AM (HXT0k)

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I'm surprised they haven't come out with an alt-history time-travel film where some "hero" goes back in time and smothers Baby Trump in his sleep.

/At least they never depicted a Central Park play with Trump as Julius Caesar being murdered on the Ides of March in 2017 ... oh, wait.

Posted by: ShainS -- Would Commies Care If The Minneapolis Paychos Were Killed By Illegals? at February 05, 2026 09:24 AM (0Eh0f)

293 Targeted Enforcement – DHS officers cannot enter private property without a judicial warrant.

So Schumer was the Imm of 1996 changed.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 05, 2026 09:25 AM (gbOdA)

294 If someone in Trump's family got abducted, I'm sure Guthrie would be helping hunt down the kidnappers, too.

So she could get a turn beating the captive.

I admire his magnanimity, but in Trump's shoes, I'd tell her "last I checked, your crowd doesn't like federal agents these days... lace up your boots and go find her yourself. I'm told you're very strong & brave for attacking me so much. You got this."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 05, 2026 09:25 AM (/Q0BY)

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