US Evacuates Embassies in Israel and Iraq, China Orders Citizens Out of Iran as Strike Appears Imminent

Recall the words of wisdom:

And so it begins.
-- Guy who thinks things are always beginning

But joking aside, it looks like Trump's had enough.

Iran once again pretended to "talk" while conceding nothing. The USS Ford is now in place for a strike.

Open Source Intel
@Osint613
Al Arabiya: The U.S. State Department has evacuated non-essential staff from the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

AFP: The United States authorised the departure of non-emergency embassy staff from Israel on Friday, as it threatened strikes on Iran and pressed its biggest military build-up in the Middle East in decades.

"True Conservative" Tucker Carlson, meanwhile, is now being feted Obama's pro-Iran foreign policy A-Team, including architect of the pro-Iran "Echo Chamber," Ben Rhodes, aka "Obama's Mind-Meld Second Brain.

Ben Rhodes, whom you undoubtedly know as Barack Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor, once bragged that he persuaded the media by gaslighting them and creating an echo chamber. Since establishment Washington, rightly, opposed the Iran deal that he and Obama so desperately wanted, they invented a new establishment and sold it to America.

As Malley and representatives of the State Department, including Wendy Sherman and Secretary of State John Kerry, engaged in formal negotiations with the Iranians, to ratify details of a framework that had already been agreed upon, Rhodes's war room did its work on Capitol Hill and with reporters. In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. "We created an echo chamber," he admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal. "They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say."
When I suggested that all this dark metafictional play seemed a bit removed from rational debate over America's future role in the world, Rhodes nodded. "In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this," he said. "We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked." He is proud of the way he sold the Iran deal. "We drove them crazy," he said of the deal's opponents.

Ah, the "expert" class. We know them well.
Ben Rhodes helped pioneer and refine the "echo chamber" strategy Obama used so well--the creation of what I call The Narrative(TM). Ben is part of the Obama team's Crooked Media, which is known for its shows Pod Save America and Pod Save the World. Crooked Media was founded by the worst of the worst: Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, and Jon Lovett, all part of Obama's communications and foreign policy/intelligence teams.

Below, they praise Tucker and encourage all other media figures to follow him in his Iran propaganda. Tommy Vietor -- "That was like a 100 years ago, man" -- says he's a Text Buddy with Tucker Carlson, The True Conservative.

Pod Save America's Ben Rhodes & Tommy Vietor gush about nazi promoter Tucker Carlson. PSA's @jonlovett / Vietor have pushed hard for ppl to back Platner (nazi tat guy) in Maine.

They say they wish more media would act like Tucker. Vietor admits he's text buddies w/ Tucker btw. pic.twitter.com/SFtcyu8uXz
— DS (@LakeDaniel11) February 26, 2026

Tucker Carlson got sick of being called antisemitic by the perfidious Satanic Jews who drink Christian babies' blood, and so he reached out to one of these Jewish Mind-Controllers to ask him how he could convince the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy to stop calling him antisemitic.

This particular Perfidious Jew, Yoram Hazony, told him he could start by ending his constant claims that Jews are engaged in a constant aggression against Christians and start all the wars in the world for no reason at all except to spread the Nefarious Jew Conspiracy.

Tucker Carlson then said, "Short of that, I mean."

Or words to that effect. Tucker did not want to stop accusing Jews of conspiring against Christians, he just wanted the Jews to stop noticing he can't stop accusing Jews of conspiring against Christians.

Yoram Hazony
@yhazony
Feb 21
My Contacts With Tucker Carlson About Anti-Semitism on His Show
A few weeks ago, a mutual friend asked me if I'd be willing to speak to Tucker Carlson off the record. I agreed and Tucker called me three weeks ago to talk. I continued texting with him for eight days after that.
But this past Friday, Tucker released a video in which he reported to the public on his off-the-record conversations with me. Inaccurately, of course. So here's some additional information on my short-lived discussions with Tucker Carlson about anti-Semitism on his show.
Tucker called me on Sunday, February 1. We talked for 1 hour and 23 minutes. Here's what I noted down on my desk calendar right after the call:
"8 am Tucker Carlson 83-minute call wanting to know how to end the charges of anti-Semitism against him. Trump told him to end it on Jan 11."
As you can see, Tucker explained that he was calling because he had come under pressure from President Trump at his famous meeting at the White House on January 11. He told me the administration wants him to find a way to stop his high-profile fights with Jews and Zionist Christians. Tucker told me that he wanted my advice on "practical steps" he could take to change the impression that he is an anti-Semite.
I thought he was asking me to host him in Israel. So I explained to him that I can't do much to help him, because just about every Jew I know believes he's been waging a savage campaign against Jews, Judaism, and Israel for the past 18 months--and that most think his aim is to drive Jews and Zionist Christians out of the Trump coalition and out of the Republican party. I said that even a year ago, quite a few Jews would probably have jumped at the chance to appear on the Tucker Carlson Show and to present an alternative point of view, but that this looked impossible to me now--and that it would stay that way as long as there's no change of direction on his part.
Tucker wanted me to explain to him why anyone would think he was an anti-Semite. I answered that question for more than an hour, giving him a series of examples of statements he and his guests had made on his show that seemed completely unhinged and motivated by a desire to slander Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Zionist Christians in order to do as much harm as possible. He kept expressing amazement that anyone would think he was an anti-Semite, and I kept giving him more examples of why I thought any fair observer would reach that conclusion if they were familiar with the relevant conversations he had hosted on his program.
The conversation ended with my agreeing to continue the discussion. I didn't feel he was open to dialing down the hostility toward Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Zionist Christians constantly being expressed on his program. But I also didn't want to close the door to the possibility that the pushback from the administration would eventually get him to make a change. (Anyone who has been following Tucker's program in the weeks since January 11 knows that, so far, there hasn't been any such change.)
On February 3, Tucker wrote to me asking if he could speak at the first Israeli National Conservatism Conference (NatCon), which is scheduled to be held in Jerusalem on June 8-10. I was taken aback that he would ask for something like that, given the content of our conversation two days earlier. But I did my best to draft a reply that would reinforce my previous description of what a great many Jews, Israelis, and Zionist Christians think of Tucker right now. Here's what I wrote in response to his request to speak at the first NatCon conference in Israel:
"Tucker, I appreciate the offer. But I need people to show up at this event. Realistically, Jews and Zionist Christians are not going to share a platform with you or come to hear you under the current circumstances. I'm just speaking descriptively about the situation: Much of the lineup will revolt if you join the program and that story will blow back on you [and other public figures] in addition to blowing up the conference. If you want to change this situation, there are things you can do unilaterally to shift the dynamic and I think that's the way to move forward."
I thought Tucker had finally gotten the message that he should stop asking me for favors, and instead consider how he could make unilateral changes that would help people get past the impression that he is one of the leading Jew-haters of our generation.
But then on February 9, he wrote to ask me if I would set up a meeting for him with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I'm not sure why he thought I was the right address for that request. But I knew very well that if someone were going to contact the Prime Minister's office with such a misguided idea, it wasn't going to be me. Here's what I wrote in reply to his request that I arrange a meeting for him with Bibi:
"I don't see how that could happen. It doesn't serve any interest I'm aware of. It could only damage him."
This was a perfectly honest answer, and Tucker could have thanked me for giving him my honest assessment of the situation he has created. But Tucker wasn't happy with it, and he typed an agitated little speech into his phone to indicate that our conversation had come to an end.
On February 20, Tucker released a peevish summary of the contacts between us as part of a wild video in which he also suggested that Israel might be trying to kill him and his family.
That's the story. I'll just add one comment. Most of what I do in public life is building coalitions. That means I talk to a lot of people who don't agree with me on all sorts of things, and sometimes that means meeting with people who don't like me very much. I have these in-person, off-the-record conversations because often people turn out to be quite different in private. Sometimes, I've just misunderstood who they are from their public appearances. Sometimes, I've understood very well who they are, but it turns out they are willing to explore the possibility of making a change. And also: Even when nothing else comes of it, I learn a tremendous amount about people from these private conversations.
In Tucker's case, the private person turns out to be exactly who we've been seeing in public. As of now, I'm not seeing any sign that he is willing to play ball with the mainstream nationalist camp in the Republican party, much less that he has any regrets about who and what he has become since leaving Fox News in 2023. Whatever his motives for turning his podcast into what seems to be a circus of anti-Jewish messaging, right now that project is clearly more important to him than helping the administration keep its coalition together so it can govern effectively and win elections in 2026 and 2028.

This is just like calling up the NAACP and asking them for a free "N-Word Pass," because sometimes, you know, n****r is just the mot juste.

Below, Tucker Carlson, who is not antisemitic, wants you to know that he is no coward and was not afraid to step into Israel proper, instead remaining in "Zone A" which I guess is some kind of zone which Israel does not have sovereign control over.

In explaining that he's not a coward who is afraid of Israel, he says that he asked the US to tell Israel the exact plane he was on, because this Non-Antisemitic Non-Coward really believed that Israel, which is "fighting a war with seven different countries, was plotting to shoot his airplane out of the sky and then claim they thought it was an "Iranian Drone," and he wanted Huckabee to tell them specifically he was on this plane so that Israel could not murder him by anti-aircraft missile and then pretend they didn't know.

He cites the totally non-antisemitic USS Liberty trope to show that Pefidious Jews love doing that kind of thing. (He continues insisting Israel knew it was an American ship, even though the NSA has released intercepted radio transmissions showing that Israel had identified the ship as Egyptian.)

See, he's not antisemitic at all, he totally isn't deranged with antisemitic conspiracy theories and paranoia.

And also: Not a coward. Definitely, N O T a coward.

Tucker is not afraid.

Not afraid of Israel or in Israel.

He just wants to make sure the IDF doesn't "mistake" his private jet "for an Iranian drone or something."

And, um, because of (false) stuff about the 1967 USS Liberty bombing.

Tucker Carlson laughs at fear.

WATCH! pic.twitter.com/DtEs83HCn5
— Joel Mowbray (@joelmowbray) February 22, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:16 PM

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1 In before we're told Trump is betraying MAGA.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

2 Well, we can't say we haven't given them ample time to change the error of their ways.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:17 PM (bss/y)

3 I nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

4 Let's hope Trump has a plan to handle this like he handled ISIS and not how Shrub handled Iraq.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 12:18 PM (sKqQm)

5 The left is also writing favorable pieces about Candace Owens now.

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2026 12:19 PM (YwEeS)

6 Willowed, about EBT/SNAP: I've seen this govt. subsidy business in action on a different front. You know how Aldi requires you to make a .25 deposit to get a shopping cart, and you get it back when you return the cart to the corral. Well, at a lot of the Aldis near me, I continually see carts, with the quarter still inside, left out in the parking lot. I guess when you're on EBT/SNAP or whatever it's called, a loss of .25 is no big deal.

It often makes it possible for me to wheel that paid-for cart inside, shop and leave, put the cart back into that corral, and get a free quarter for my efforts!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2026 12:19 PM (wzUl9)

7 I haven't seen ace this amped up about a political commentator since... maybe Jonah?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)

8 4 Let's hope Trump has a plan to handle this like he handled ISIS and not how Shrub handled Iraq.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 12:18 PM (sKqQm)

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5 years of Trump's foreign policy example says:

He won't do a W. He's had a dozen chances and turned them all down.

Hell, Biden didn't even get our boots on the ground in Ukraine, that's how out of favor foreign adventurism is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

9 He cites the totally non-antisemitic USS Liberty trope to show that Pefidious Jews love doing that kind of thing. (He continues insisting Israel knew it was an American ship, even though the NSA has released intercepted radio transmissions showing that Israel had identified the ship as Egyptian.)

Note the people that tell you any time the government screws up that it was just a mistake and not at all a conspiracy also tell me that in the middle of a conflict with hostile neighboring powers Israel decided to attack an American ship for some reason.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 12:20 PM (sKqQm)

10 willowed

NASA just announced a MAJOR overhaul of the Artemis program. Here’s what’s changed, according to @NASAAdmin
@rookisaacman
:

NEW MISSIONS:
Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 - docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to test systems and new spacesuits BEFORE anyone tries to land on the moon.

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basically what we accomplished with the Apollo 7 and 9 flights.

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:20 PM (ZxPkt)

11 7 I haven't seen ace this amped up about a political commentator since... maybe Jonah?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y

Jonah was just a fat wet noodle with no real following... Tucker is dangerous...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2026 12:21 PM (0DN51)

12 I guess if you ARE gonna do it, you might as well do it while the Taliban has their hands full with Pakistan so they can't jump in and assist the regime...

Posted by: XTC at February 27, 2026 12:22 PM (wa/yD)

13 4 Let's hope Trump has a plan to handle this like he handled ISIS and not how Shrub handled Iraq.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 12:18 PM (sKqQm)

Ever wonder if maybe we are not being reasonable when it comes to trump. It is like we expect THIS time, after all the other evidence to the contrary, Trump is going to turn into Lindsay Graham or Bill Kristol on nation building.

May be a bit unreasonable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

14 Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 - docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to test systems and new spacesuits BEFORE anyone tries to land on the moon.

I dunno, testing stuff before you implement it seems like a fine idea to me.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 27, 2026 12:22 PM (a+4eV)

15 Jonah was just a fat wet noodle with no real following... Tucker is dangerous...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2026 12:21 PM (0DN51)

Is he?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:23 PM (bss/y)

16 13 Ever wonder if maybe we are not being reasonable when it comes to trump. It is like we expect THIS time, after all the other evidence to the contrary, Trump is going to turn into Lindsay Graham or Bill Kristol on nation building.

May be a bit unreasonable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

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After the 27 year long war that erupted because of the droning of General Soleimeni in Trump's first term, I think it's reasonable to assume that all foreign policy engagements under Trump lead to extended wars.

It's only logic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

17 No new wars? Said somebody somewhere sometime.

Posted by: Promise not kept at February 27, 2026 12:23 PM (fKeBm)

18 Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 - docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to test systems and new spacesuits BEFORE anyone tries to land on the moon.

LOL.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2026 12:24 PM (ExV1e)

19 15 Jonah was just a fat wet noodle with no real following... Tucker is dangerous...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2026 12:21 PM (0DN51)

Is he?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:23 PM (bss/y)

He's certainly more followed...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2026 12:24 PM (0DN51)

20 Awesome post ace. Dotting the i's and crossing the t's.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:24 PM (/M/4v)

21 After the 27 year long war that erupted because of the droning of General Soleimeni in Trump's first term, I think it's reasonable to assume that all foreign policy engagements under Trump lead to extended wars.

It's only logic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

Wait, are we living in TJM World? My mistake- nothing has to make sense in that case.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:24 PM (bss/y)

22 With SLS/Artemus they had to let it fail in no uncertain terms. That program was always a giant pork fest

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2026 12:24 PM (YwEeS)

23 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at February 27, 2026 12:25 PM (omSBT)

24 Well, let's just ask Ben Rhodes...oh,wait...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2026 12:25 PM (XeU6L)

25 >>>5 The left is also writing favorable pieces about Candace Owens now.

yes, I saw that! I have a half-written post about this grifter. She's now doing a "documentary" about Erika Kirk which will present her theories that Erika is a lesbian groomer and also killed her husband.

I can't finish that today, though, and I already did her Partner In Crime, Tucker, so it'll have to wait.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)

26 I dunno, testing stuff before you implement it seems like a fine idea to me.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 27, 2026 12:22 PM (a+4eV)

Particularly given the fact that every time they try to do something with it there's an issue despite the fact that they're, theoretically, not doing rapid prototyping ala SpaceX.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2026 12:26 PM (ExV1e)

27 Rubio is scheduled to be in Israel on March 2-3...

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:26 PM (/M/4v)

28 Squash the mullahs and arm the people to permit a fine cleaning of Iran. Then open talks with Cuber.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 27, 2026 12:26 PM (pZ64F)

29 "True Conservative" Tucker Carlson, meanwhile, is now being feted Obama's pro-Iran foreign policy A-Team, including architect of the pro-Iran "Echo Chamber," Ben Rhodes, aka "Obama's Mind-Meld Second Brain.

This new Odd Couple reboot sucks. The bow tie guy laughs like he's doing backing tracks on a Floyd album.

98% Rotten

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 27, 2026 12:26 PM (w/O5Q)

30 >>No new wars? Said somebody somewhere sometime.
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"No more forever wars."

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 27, 2026 12:26 PM (bNf8H)

31 Things could get messy

Posted by: Guy who thinks things might get messy at February 27, 2026 12:27 PM (ZxPkt)

32 17 No new wars? Said somebody somewhere sometime.

Posted by: Promise not kept at February 27, 2026 12:23 PM (fKeBm)

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I wonder.

Has Iran considered itself at war with America since 1978?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

33
Cucker Tarleson could avoid being seen as an antisemite who won't stop talking about teh Joos if he really wanted to. He just needs to stop talking about teh Joos.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2026 12:27 PM (HXiQ2)

34 "General Ben" Hodges, the most prominent rabid anti-Russian American commentator, suddenly just remembered that the Russians tried to kill him by bombing his train five times in the Netherlands last summer.

The reaction of the Dutch government and Dutch railways was "huh?"

Guess someone feels that he isn't getting enough attention...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 27, 2026 12:27 PM (n1OCj)

35 6 Willowed, about EBT/SNAP: I've seen this govt. subsidy business in action on a different front. You know how Aldi requires you to make a .25 deposit to get a shopping cart, and you get it back when you return the cart to the corral. Well, at a lot of the Aldis near me, I continually see carts, with the quarter still inside, left out in the parking lot. I guess when you're on EBT/SNAP or whatever it's called, a loss of .25 is no big deal.

It often makes it possible for me to wheel that paid-for cart inside, shop and leave, put the cart back into that corral, and get a free quarter for my efforts!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2026 12:19 PM (wzUl9)

I've pocketed maybe $0.75 from this. The overwhelming majority of the time people take their carts back. It's an ingenious system that lets Aldi keep costs down by having the customer do the work when it comes to cart return.

Posted by: And their prices are WAY low at February 27, 2026 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

36 yes, I saw that! I have a half-written post about this grifter. She's now doing a "documentary" about Erika Kirk which will present her theories that Erika is a lesbian groomer and also killed her husband.

I can't finish that today, though, and I already did her Partner In Crime, Tucker, so it'll have to wait.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)

Wait, she's a lesbian groomer now? I thought she was banging so many guys before and after her marriage to Kirk that she couldn't be a lesbian.

This stuff is so hard to keep up with.

Although, if they keep wanting to show her in images of bikinis as 'proof', I am ok with that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y)

37 "Perfidious Jew?"

I haven't heard that term since attending a Traditional Latin Mass.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 27, 2026 12:28 PM (qFwJc)

38 25 I can't finish that today, though, and I already did her Partner In Crime, Tucker, so it'll have to wait.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)

Request possible use of "Partner in Slime" for those two.

Posted by: XTC at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (wa/yD)

39 This new Odd Couple reboot sucks. The bow tie guy laughs like he's doing backing tracks on a Floyd album.

98% Rotten
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Some things should never be tinkered with.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (pZ64F)

40 I guess I thought we answered those questions back in the 70s

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (ZxPkt)

41 Jonah was just a fat wet noodle with no real following... Tucker is dangerous...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2026 12:21 PM (0DN51)

Is he?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:23 PM (bss/y)

He's certainly more followed...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2026 12:24 PM (0DN51)

That only means he's dangerous if you also believe that Ace and JJ Sefton brain-wash all of us into believing things we didn't already believe. (This was also a major trope about Rush Limbaugh back in the day).

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

42 Cucker is a feature on Tehran official TV channels. His rhetoric and jihadi rhetoric are in alignment. He is also undermining Trump, constantly, and leaking inside the "inside the WH" stuff to his buddies in the press.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (/M/4v)

43 >> She's now doing a "documentary" about Erika Kirk which will present her theories that Erika is a lesbian groomer

That's Hot. Does she have a Mobile Lesbian Grooming Service...or, does she just work out of a Storefront?

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (1Udfd)

44 So kicking Iran's ass might actually be more effective than sucking its dick. Who'da thunk it.

Posted by: Leave that to the goats at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (TbWk/)

45 Iran must be feeling pretty confident they have things hidden well enough to survive an attack.

Meanwhile this underscores the threat to Europe caused by Obama when he canceled the missile defense systems. They were more to defend against Iran, not Russia.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (2WIwB)

46 I never see perfidious without the other term.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (8PrXA)

47 "True Conservative" Tucker Carlson, meanwhile, is now being fetid

Fixed it

Posted by: Nicless at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (nPp6w)

48 60s, actually

anyway, fire away

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (ZxPkt)

49 41 That only means he's dangerous if you also believe that Ace and JJ Sefton brain-wash all of us into believing things we didn't already believe. (This was also a major trope about Rush Limbaugh back in the day).

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

======

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

50 I haven't heard that term since attending a Traditional Latin Mass.

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Some people are crying crocodile tears, lamenting the 2nd Vatican because of it.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (/M/4v)

51 Also, in more interesting news, Hillary testified yesterday that she barely knew Epstein existed. The released files indicate that Epstein and Maxwell created the Clinton Global Initiative. Oops.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (2ocoG)

52 The bow tie guy laughs like he's doing backing tracks on a Floyd album.
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The lunatic is on the grass.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (omSBT)

53 Several more arrests in connection with St. Paul church protest against ICE

KARE's Lou Raguse said sources reported those arrested were taken to the federal courthouse in St. Paul, where they're expected to make their first court appearances

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (RHGPo)

54 "It often makes it possible for me to wheel that paid-for cart inside, shop and leave, put the cart back into that corral, and get a free quarter for my efforts!"

Here in my little city with one Aldi, it is customary to find a "free" cart. We "pay it forward." You have to be a real shithead to retrieve the fucking quarter.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (qFwJc)

55 Robert Malley is a traitor to the U.S.

Posted by: Richard Scaramanga at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (RIvkX)

56 NEW MISSIONS:
Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 - docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to test systems and new spacesuits BEFORE anyone tries to land on the moon.

----

basically what we accomplished with the Apollo 7 and 9 flights.
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:20 PM (ZxPkt)

Shit. Elon should do his own Moon mission, and claim the Moon as his personal fiefdom.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (8zz6B)

57 /three nipples sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 12:31 PM (RIvkX)

58 "Death To America" sounds very warlike to me.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:31 PM (/M/4v)

59 Lesbian groomer > lesbian seagull?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

60 Barely knew is vague enough to work.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:31 PM (8PrXA)

61 I never see perfidious without the other term.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (8PrXA)
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Perfide Albion!

Posted by: Napoleon Bonaparte at February 27, 2026 12:31 PM (omSBT)

62 What does Erika Kirk charge to Flea Dip a Lesbian?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2026 12:32 PM (1Udfd)

63 That only means he's dangerous if you also believe that Ace and JJ Sefton brain-wash all of us into believing things we didn't already believe. (This was also a major trope about Rush Limbaugh back in the day).
Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

This. We don't follow or listen to a commentator usually because they have 'changed our minds' and helped form our worldview- we do it because they echo our own. Just like movie reviewers or channels.

If we were brainwashed acolytes, there would probably be fewer ace is a gay effete nancy boi on a vespa jokes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

64 I seem to recall Tucker reaching out to Hunter Biden for a college letter of recommendation for one of his kids. He's always been swampy.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 27, 2026 12:32 PM (XvL8K)

65 Hillary testified yesterday that she barely knew Epstein existed. The released files indicate that Epstein and Maxwell created the Clinton Global Initiative. Oops.
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Any word on Bill's blue dress?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 27, 2026 12:32 PM (pZ64F)

66 totally non-antisemitic USS Liberty trope

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What does this mean?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 27, 2026 12:32 PM (RkOfE)

67
*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

I have this strange gnawing pain in my liver all of a sudden.

Posted by: Damn vultures at February 27, 2026 12:33 PM (TbWk/)

68 64 I seem to recall Tucker reaching out to Hunter Biden for a college letter of recommendation for one of his kids. He's always been swampy.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 27, 2026 12:32 PM (XvL8K)

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"Asking Hunter Biden for a letter of recommendation?! Why isn't the DOJ executing Tucker right now! That's worse than being Epstein's plumber!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

69 Well, let's just ask Ben Rhodes...oh,wait...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2026 12:25 PM (XeU6L)

BTW, Mike. Could you add a little shredded ginger and spices to Cream of Rice to make it resemble congee?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2026 12:33 PM (8zz6B)

70 Forrest Tucker >>> Tucker Carlson

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 27, 2026 12:33 PM (wtvvX)

71 I seem to recall Tucker reaching out to Hunter Biden for a college letter of recommendation for one of his kids. He's always been swampy.

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thanks for the reminder, when the shiit about Hunter's laptop hit the fan, he defended him on Fox.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:33 PM (/M/4v)

72 The elder Maxwell or the younger?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:33 PM (8PrXA)

73 Tucker wanted me to explain to him why anyone would think he was an anti-Semite.
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He has no idea, he a flummoxed and a perplexed. Please somebody help!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 12:33 PM (RIvkX)

74 Ben Rhodes' brain mind-melding with Barky's brain yields approximately 0.6 of the intelligent thought capability of a normal human brain.

Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2026 12:33 PM (5rh/l)

75 How are the lunchtime DC pizza sales going?

Posted by: Methos at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (vSvIl)

76 59 Lesbian groomer > lesbian seagull?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

Busty lesbians > Lesbian groomers > lesbian seagull > flock of seagulls

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (bss/y)

77 1. What is our goal in attacking Iran?
2. Is it achievable?
3. At what cost?

I would love to wake up to a Mullah-free Iran, but I fear an echo of 2004-2008: A disasterous ME engagement + massive job losses from AI that tanks the economy = Obama 2.0, only this time the Democrat-Communists will not be fooling around and we will be well and truly fucked.

Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (qUkBO)

78 75 How are the lunchtime DC pizza sales going?

Posted by: Methos at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (vSvIl)

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Hegseth said something recently that he's going to order that a bunch of pizzas get ordered on random days just to throw off the tracker.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

79 Cucker Tarleson could avoid being seen as an antisemite who won't stop talking about teh Joos if he really wanted to. He just needs to stop talking about teh Joos.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2026 12:27 PM (HXiQ2)

Exactly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (8zz6B)

80 In Fairfax, VA, Abdul Jalloh stabbed a woman to death at a bus stop. Investigators are "still working to determine a motive."

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (n5tGW)

81 The Death Dorrito comes.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at February 27, 2026 12:35 PM (1JFYK)

82 Erika Lesbian Seagull was the unsuccessful sequel to Jonathon Livingston Seagull.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 27, 2026 12:36 PM (omSBT)

83 Ebt should only work for Kale.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:36 PM (8PrXA)

84 Here's what I wrote in reply to his request that I arrange a meeting for him with Bibi:

"I don't see how that could happen. It doesn't serve any interest I'm aware of. It could only damage him."

This was a perfectly honest answer, and Tucker could have thanked me for giving him my honest assessment of the situation he has created. But Tucker wasn't happy with it, and he typed an agitated little speech into his phone to indicate that our conversation had come to an end.
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Well you all know each other, amirite?
-Tucker

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 12:36 PM (RIvkX)

85 Pro Tip: Don't pay extra for Nail Trimming.

Just let your lesbian out of the car, 1/2 mile from the Groomer and make her run behind the car, on the pavement.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2026 12:36 PM (1Udfd)

86 Maybe Tucker will start sporting a retro look pager to compliment the bow tie.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2026 12:36 PM (gm9Sb)

87 I was watching a video on youtube about the experience of Japanese POWs in Wisconsin in WWII and how during their first meal they expected to be executed shortly afterward since the meal was white rice, which is fed to condemned prisoners. It highlighted the fundamental misunderstanding of cultures that led to war.

I don't think we have a fundamental misunderstanding with Iran. They want to kill us.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:36 PM (QGaXH)

88 You heard of "fleet in being," right.

Well Trump is trying the "fleet in being up your ass, Iran" strategy.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 27, 2026 12:37 PM (ce4EC)

89 77 1. What is our goal in attacking Iran?
2. Is it achievable?
3. At what cost?

I would love to wake up to a Mullah-free Iran, but I fear an echo of 2004-2008: A disasterous ME engagement + massive job losses from AI that tanks the economy = Obama 2.0, only this time the Democrat-Communists will not be fooling around and we will be well and truly fucked.
Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (qUkBO)

The first bit is just common sense. The second essay is just fearful crap. You cannot let the fear of what the enemy MIGHT do paralyze you from doing anything. They are going to try to strap the rat cages on no matter what we do or don't do. We'll have to deal with that one way or another, but letting it paralyze us is NOT the answer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:37 PM (bss/y)

90 >>> NEW MISSIONS:
Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 - docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to test systems and new spacesuits BEFORE anyone tries to land on the moon.

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basically what we accomplished with the Apollo 7 and 9 flights.
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:20 PM (ZxPkt)

UPDATE:
Artemis 3 is no longer an LEO flight. Instead we are going to gather together at a low-tier carny carousel wearing crude space helmets fashioned from cardboard boxes and make ZOOOOM! WOOOOSH! sounds as we go around. Every effort will be made to choose space exploration themed mounts, like an astro-unicorn, if that's a thing.

Posted by: banana astro-unicorn Dream at February 27, 2026 12:37 PM (3uBP9)

91 Well you all know each other, amirite?
-Tucker
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 12:36 PM (RIvkX)

Just like Canadians.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:37 PM (bss/y)

92 A few days of bombing select sites (to little effect again) like last time and a few dozen Iranian ballistic launches towards Israel again like last time before both sides declare victory and pack it all up again.

No ground forces. Planes, drones, bombs, missiles can not carry out regime change. It is very unclear what the USA intends to do, or what the repercussions for Iran and the region could look like in the aftermath.

Wars gotta be on the weekend so the market is closed. Can’t have red lines going down while you bomb people

A limited strike is likely unavoidable. If the Iran regime does not bend after this, a full scale war aiming for regime change is likely. It may even be possible that China take its chance on Taiwan if the US is too distracted.

I read yesterday that the likely way this would go down (for optics/political reasons) would be for Israel to start something, then the US, who just happens to be in the area, would jump in.

Hilary came out yesterday saying Trump AND Melania are both heavily involved with Epstein and yet no investigation is ongoing there. Scared the crap out of the 80 year old dementia don.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 27, 2026 12:38 PM (JCZqz)

93 I would love to wake up to a Mullah-free Iran, but I fear an echo of 2004-2008: A disasterous ME engagement + massive job losses from AI that tanks the economy = Obama 2.0, only this time the Democrat-Communists will not be fooling around and we will be well and truly fucked.

Repeat after me: DONALD J. TRUMP IS NOT GEORGE W. BUSH.

I'm not sure how many times Trump has to go in and out and nobody on our side gets hurt before people actually believe he's not going to start a ground war, but it's happened twice in the last year already. Calm your tits.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:38 PM (2ocoG)

94 I dunno, testing stuff before you implement it seems like a fine idea to me.
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They already did. At great cost, in 1968. That’s what makes all this BS sixty years later so pathetic.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 27, 2026 12:38 PM (V73VQ)

95 74 Ben Rhodes' brain mind-melding with Barky's brain yields approximately 0.6 of the intelligent thought capability of a normal human brain.
Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2026 12:33 PM (5rh/l)

How does that convert to milliKohns?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 27, 2026 12:38 PM (B0NCh)

96 80 In Fairfax, VA, Abdul Jalloh stabbed a woman to death at a bus stop. Investigators are "still working to determine a motive."
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (n5tGW)

There's never room for J A L L OH.

Posted by: XTC at February 27, 2026 12:38 PM (wa/yD)

97 Here in my little city with one Aldi, it is customary to find a "free" cart. We "pay it forward." You have to be a real shithead to retrieve the fucking quarter.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 27, 2026 12:30 PM (qFwJc)

Naw, the whole purpose of the cart "rental" is to encourage users to return the carts to the corral. Aldis wants you to collect that quarter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (8zz6B)

98 Perfidious Albanian?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (Cqx++)

99 The problem is, of course, that March - May is the best window to invade Taiwan, and China may be thinking,... it sure would be nice of the Americans were busy in Iran, months before a midterm, and still dependent on China, Taiwan, and foreign energy.....

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ce4EC)

100 I will hold off on commenting about the mentally challenged Admiral Ackbar lookalike and NAACP hustler Owens, until ace is ready with his post!

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (/M/4v)

101 Seems to me Iran leaders want a war. I don't think it would last long. The people of Iran are sick of their so-called government anyway.

Posted by: Case at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (Z3Kkg)

102 Tucker got RFK Jr’s brain worm.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (W2Pud)

103 Make America Great Again, but also Neocons can have a little Mideast war, on Sunday, as a treat.

David French, Evan McMuffin, Max Boot, Bill Kristol, and Jonah Goldberg approve this message.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (49ko9)

104 On the one hand I want to support whatever Trump & Co. are planning for Iran because The Obama Braintrust and Faggot Show got it so completely wrong for so long that doing the opposite of that seems logical.

On the other hand, I'm skeptical about what our plans are in the long term, because my entire adult life has been spent watching the most powerful military on earth step on its own dick over and over again.

Posted by: ballistic at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (5aZAZ)

105 98 Perfidious Albanian?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (Cqx++)

I think we can all agree on perfidious canadians.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (bss/y)

106 Probably my favorite thing the leftards have done in the last 5 years, just beating out weaponizing trannies into their personal Alice Qaeda cell, is mainstreaming the word "Zionist", a term you would ONLY see on "certain" websites for 30 years or so, and in contexts that were less than favorable.

Just incredible. Like reintroducing the hard r n-word for regular conversation. Which I think you will see Democrats do in our lifetime. Various growing Democrat factions, it turns out, don't actually like black people very much.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (7GMXG)

107 The first bit is just common sense. The second essay is just fearful crap. You cannot let the fear of what the enemy MIGHT do paralyze you from doing anything. They are going to try to strap the rat cages on no matter what we do or don't do. We'll have to deal with that one way or another, but letting it paralyze us is NOT the answer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:37 PM (bss/y)
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Winston Churchill: something something don't take counsel of your fears something.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (omSBT)

108 The Persian people deserve an end to this insane regime. Still have my doubts we can achieve that.

Posted by: Max Power at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (q177U)

109 105 98 Perfidious Albanian?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2026 12:39 PM (Cqx++)

I think we can all agree on perfidious canadians.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (bss/y)

For some reason, I really wanted to type 'shifty snow wops'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (bss/y)

110 Today's Fox business Varney & Co Trivia:

Who painted 'The Starry Night'?

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali

On a related note, Varney solicits viewer feedback on Fridays. This week, after several unsuccessful attempts on my part, they used one of my e-mails. And just like the 'Comments of the Week' here, I knew when I wrote it that it was a winner.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (QGaXH)

111
10 willowed

NASA just announced a MAJOR overhaul of the Artemis program. Here’s what’s changed, according to @NASAAdmin
@rookisaacman
:

NEW MISSIONS:
Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 - docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to test systems and new spacesuits BEFORE anyone tries to land on the moon.

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basically what we accomplished with the Apollo 7 and 9 flights.
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:20 PM

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This reminds me of the Space Shuttle. The Shuttle program won out over a cheap booster idea similar to what Musk is doing now. The result was a dangerous expensive kludge that continued for political, rather than technical reasons. NASA had become a fossilized ass-covering federal that was incapable of making sound decisions -- and this was back in the 1980s. Scrap NASA and start over.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (azNOR)

112 David French, Evan McMuffin, Max Boot, Bill Kristol, and Jonah Goldberg approve this message.
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Kit them out and parachute them into Iran.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (pZ64F)

113 Perfidious Babylonians.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (8PrXA)

114 I weep and beat my breast (the one I am proud of) for poor, misunderstood Tucker.

You deserve this Tucker, you antisemite. Which you haven't hidden under a bushel but allowed that light to shine forth into the giant mouth of Owens. Where it then popped out of her Sanpaku rolling eyeballs.

Yoram Hazony was harassed. He should block the lunatic and get a restraining order. NUTS.

Tuckcuck has a private jet. I suggest he buy a private island and fly his private jet with family, Candance, and followers to start a commune. Dig a safe cave. Near Qatar. No one wants you here, Tucker and Candace. No one who is sane.

"Off the rails" doesn't describe them. They are being paid to damage conservatism and/or attempt to cause divide. Unfortunately for whoever is paying them, they don't message well at all. Might as well pay Nick Reiner to take up the flag.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (WONhk)

115 108 The Persian people deserve an end to this insane regime. Still have my doubts we can achieve that.
Posted by: Max Power at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (q177U)

This is kind of my point. Protests have been simmering for a month or more... why does there not seem to be more widespread revolt? I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)

116 Uh, even if you think the Liberty attack was just a tragic mistake, it still proves that Israel is capable of making tragic mistakes in wartime.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (49ko9)

117 On the other hand, I'm skeptical about what our plans are in the long term, because my entire adult life has been spent watching the most powerful military on earth step on its own dick over and over again.

Hegseth has banned dick stepping. Turns out it was a fetish of that wolf-tranny or whatever.

But seriously, again, Trump has had two highly successful military operations in the past year that led to no ground war. When will you trust him?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (2ocoG)

118 Hilary came out yesterday saying Trump AND Melania are both heavily involved with Epstein
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Amazing how she just never thought to mention it any time in the last 10 years. I guess she was just being nice.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (7GMXG)

119 And so it begins, indeed. God rest the souls who've been jailed, tortured and murdered by the demonic Iranian regime. And Lord, please protect the brave Iranians who are fighting for their freedom. 🙏

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (4tmpE)

120 USS Liberty? That was like 100 years ago, man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (FXNzP)

121 Artemis is a hot mess.

Posted by: Max Power at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (q177U)

122 I haven't watched him lately. Well, probably in a couple of years (boy has it proved a good decision to unplug since the 24 election) but Tucker can't be all that bad, right? Do we hate Tucker now? Calling him a nazi seems a little strong.

Posted by: ghost of kari at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (hPVqm)

123 Can't wait for the upcoming Ami Kozak parody on the latest Tucker insanity.

I really do believe he has lost his mind. It is rather sad to watch.

Posted by: alanon at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (jHMkm)

124 110 Today's Fox business Varney & Co Trivia:

Who painted 'The Starry Night'?

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali

*raises hand* I know! I know!

Posted by: Don McLean at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (B0NCh)

125 116 Uh, even if you think the Liberty attack was just a tragic mistake, it still proves that Israel is capable of making tragic mistakes in wartime.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (49ko9)

So is everyone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

126 So kicking Iran's ass might actually be more effective than sucking its dick. Who'da thunk it.
Posted by: Leave that to the goats
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Not me. Rapprochement is the proper way to handle this. We start with pallets of cash...

Posted by: Valerie Jarrett at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (XeU6L)

127 56 Shit. Elon should do his own Moon mission, and claim the Moon as his personal fiefdom.

with blackjack. and hookers.

Posted by: bender "bending" rodriguez at February 27, 2026 12:43 PM (aaakC)

128 NASA just announced a MAJOR overhaul of the Artemis program.

I'm not surprised. All they were on schedule to do was kill some more astronauts.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 27, 2026 12:43 PM (CrUNC)

129 How would she know? She barely knew Epstein.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:43 PM (8PrXA)

130 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (QGaXH)

Nice!

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:43 PM (7GMXG)

131 Tucker got RFK Jr’s brain worm.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Up his ass.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at February 27, 2026 12:43 PM (1JFYK)

132 I've been watching FlightRadar and the sheer number of military cargo and arial refuelers that have been flown into the area is amazing. And that's only what we want seen. Of course I have no way of knowing, but if he follows his pattern, I guess that Trump has something truly overwhelming in mind.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 27, 2026 12:43 PM (bNf8H)

133 Cucker is spinning like a top last week or so. Getting more unhinged and gaslighty than usual. I think that trip to Russia and subsequent change from bidet policy to Trump policy in that area went to his head. He did not realize the policy shift was already in the works long before he did his Putin interview.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:43 PM (/M/4v)

134 I'm not sure how many times Trump has to go in and out and nobody on our side gets hurt before people actually believe he's not going to start a ground war, but it's happened twice in the last year already.
____

This is a very different type of engagement. The nuclear facility attack in Iran and the Maduro extraction were discrete, achievable tasks, and the Trump administration did a great job there. Taking out the Iran regime, if that's our goal, is much broader and will not be achieved with a single engagement in a few hours.

Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 27, 2026 12:44 PM (qUkBO)

135
Various growing Democrat factions, it turns out, don't actually like black people very much.
Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (7GMXG)

Like the whole Democrat Party, and it's been this way for over 150 years. Even the black Democrats don't like black people.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2026 12:44 PM (HXiQ2)

136 I think it is reasonable to be concerned about getting involved in a foreign conflict. I have more trust for PDT than most politicians which really isn't saying too much. I do not want the US to get involved in a war. As I have no influence on what happens, I state my position and will be watching events unfold.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 27, 2026 12:44 PM (RkOfE)

137 Vincent Van Go.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:44 PM (8PrXA)

138 Hegseth said something recently that he's going to order that a bunch of pizzas get ordered on random days just to throw off the tracker.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (GBKbO)
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Israel MoD has banned food deliveries to their HQ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 12:44 PM (RIvkX)

139 It's funny how many want to believe that Tucker has "gone crazy".

He's gone the way of many a "true conservative" since 1980.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:45 PM (7GMXG)

140 "False stuff about the 1967 USS Liberty bombing."

Lol 100% chance this guy has no idea what the Lavon Affair was.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:45 PM (49ko9)

141 Author Dan Simmons has died.

well I'm very very sad

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 27, 2026 12:45 PM (j+aD2)

142 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2026 12:44 PM (HXiQ2)

I was gonna mention all that but I didn't want to complicate my point. Honestly I can always count on you to be right there on my wavelength. Scary thought I know

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (7GMXG)

143

THESE FUCKING ADS !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (NtVYv)

144 Hilary came out yesterday saying Trump AND Melania are both heavily involved with Epstein and yet no investigation is ongoing there.

-
If you can't believe Hilldog, who can you believe?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (FXNzP)

145 The time has come to say "Fair's fair"
To pay the rent, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact's a fact
It belongs to them, let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (NtVYv)

146 Uh, even if you think the Liberty attack was just a tragic mistake, it still proves that Israel is capable of making tragic mistakes in wartime.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (49ko9)

So is everyone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Might I suggest reading Clausewitz.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (1JFYK)

147 135
Various growing Democrat factions, it turns out, don't actually like black people very much.
Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM (7GMXG)

=====

Blacks voting as a major block in the TX Senate primary is going to have...effects.

The progressive left is CONVINCED that gay, twink, heretic Talarico is electable in Texas. When Crockett loses the general (95% of the black vote in Texas is far less effective in the general election than in the Democrat primary), they're going to fully blame the black electorate for it. The counter factual will be that Talarico would have made it closer, if not outright won.

And then Kamala is going to announce her run while securing at least 80% of the black vote the day she does it.

Holy shit...the only left is going to go full racist. It's gonna be hilarious.

I just hope it spills out into the real world.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

148 The left is also writing favorable pieces about Candace Owens now.
Posted by: steevy

Of course they are. Owens is still on the attack against Kirk and has enlisted the Washington Post as her PR firm as Owens says she will reveal bombshells from Erika's past relevant to her stewardship to TPUSA.

Anything to dirty a conservative movement especially geared to young people on college campuses.

Posted by: Cheri at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (oiNtH)

149 Hegseth said something recently that he's going to order that a bunch of pizzas get ordered on random days just to throw off the tracker.

His recent firing of another tranny should help confuse the *other* Pentagon tracker that tracks how busy gay bars near the Pentagon are, too.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (2ocoG)

150 Ads?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (8PrXA)

151 Make the cart rental say, $2.50 and it will work again.

25c is like, appearance wise a Chucky Cheese token worth about a penny, The pennies themselves are basically litter now. That’s why the Mint stopped churning them out.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (l+ype)

152 Regarding this Iranian escalation, I don't like what's going on but it appears the Mullahs are pretty vulnerable right now. If we could just start bombing where they are concentrated and let the people finish them off when they are flushed out would be a ideal course of action.

You don't need to light up the whole place, just get rid of the old guard, all of them because ultimately they cannot be trusted.

But any change in a volatile region is risky.

Posted by: pawn at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (+rKuc)

153 “Iran propaganda” like “let’s not go to war with Iran because doing so doesn’t promote a single American interest”…?

Whoops there we go with the anti semitisms again

Posted by: Coach Howard Schnebrllenegr at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (x02lX)

154 So is everyone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
________

Only one country ever accidentally attacked an American naval vessel. Just one: Our Greatest Ally.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (49ko9)

155 It seems rather rough
On Vincent van Guff
When folks in the know
Call him Vincent van Go
For unless I'm way off
He was Vincent van Gogh

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (omSBT)

156 How come CNN is not reporting live from Iran?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (pZ64F)

157 Too many people on our side believe Tucker and Candace’s lies.
I really think their intentions are to sow discord among Republican voters so that voter turnout is low.
Then when the Democrats get elected they will swoop in and be the saviors,

They disgust me.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (LhFN3)

158
China and Russia have technical observer teams in Iran, and are providing air defense equipment and training, and probably operating equipment themselves. If we lose people, it will be largely their doing.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (azNOR)

159 >>Taking out the Iran regime, if that's our goal, is much broader and will not be achieved with a single engagement in a few hours.
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I doubt very much that's the goal, at least not directly.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (bNf8H)

160 THESE FUCKING ADS !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (NtVYv)

No kidding. 🤬

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2026 12:48 PM (4tmpE)

161 The Dutch can't spell.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:48 PM (8PrXA)

162 10 willowed
NASA just announced a MAJOR overhaul of the Artemis program. Here’s what’s changed, according to @NASAAdmin
@rookisaacman

NEW MISSIONS:
Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 - docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to test systems and new spacesuits BEFORE anyone tries to land on the moon.
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basically what we accomplished with the Apollo 7 and 9 flights.
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:20 PM (ZxPkt)

Sanity returns to NASA manned spaceflight. For now. For the long-term? We'll see.

Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2026 12:48 PM (5rh/l)

163 Vincent van Gogh

Posted by: doug at February 27, 2026 12:48 PM (Hy+R4)

164 100 I will hold off on commenting about the mentally challenged Admiral Ackbar lookalike and NAACP hustler Owens, until ace is ready with his post!
Posted by: runner

Fuck you too, buddy! I'm quite the catch!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 27, 2026 12:48 PM (Cp7Ou)

165 On a related note, Varney solicits viewer feedback on Fridays. This week, after several unsuccessful attempts on my part, they used one of my e-mails. And just like the 'Comments of the Week' here, I knew when I wrote it that it was a winner.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM
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Sorry I missed it

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 12:48 PM (RIvkX)

166 Ya know, I didn't have "Masturbatin' Pete returns and is touting the Final Solution" on my bingo card.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:48 PM (2ocoG)

167 110 Who painted 'The Starry Night'?

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM

Vinnie for the win!!

"Starry Night" is one of my favorites paintings. Displayed at the MoMa in NYC, a block from where I work.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (qoLdL)

168 Hilary came out yesterday saying Trump AND Melania are both heavily involved with Epstein and yet no investigation is ongoing there.

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If you can't believe Hilldog, who can you believe?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

She should be sued if she can't prove any of these allegations. Always deflections with a Clinton.

Posted by: Cheri at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (oiNtH)

169 146 Uh, even if you think the Liberty attack was just a tragic mistake, it still proves that Israel is capable of making tragic mistakes in wartime.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (49ko9)

So is everyone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Might I suggest reading Clausewitz.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (1JFYK)

Reading is just more joo devilry.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (CrUNC)

170 My daughter did a LEGO version of this Very cool

Posted by: doug at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (Hy+R4)

171 46 I never see perfidious without the other term.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:29 PM (8PrXA)

I'm right here, man.

Posted by: Albion at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (Sy6m/)

172 >>He kept expressing amazement that anyone would think he was an anti-Semite,

Of all the annoying logic ticks that Tucker has, this has to be the most annoying -- He acts offended and amazed when anyone notices a reality that does not hold Tucker as an honorable, intelligent, insightful, and wise man.

"How could anyone think that?" after he provides a non stop stream of reasons.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (ce4EC)

173 124 110 Today's Fox business Varney & Co Trivia:

Who painted 'The Starry Night'?

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali

*raises hand* I know! I know!
Posted by: Don McLean at February 27, 2026 12:42 PM (B0NCh)

Excellent!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (QGaXH)

174 Hilary came out yesterday saying Trump AND Melania are both heavily involved with Epstein and yet no investigation is ongoing there. Scared the crap out of the 80 year old dementia don.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 27, 2026 12:38 PM (JCZqz)

"Don" was shaking in his boots..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (VE6XX)

175 158 I wonder how you say Wild Weasel in Chink or Russian.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)

176 I saw some stuff about Iran that convinced me to reconsider my lifelong "turn it to Pyrex" sentiment. There are a LOT of "secular" people trapped there. It's not long enough for them and their families to have all died off. I know it's true. Not that I want to guide them in "Democracy" or anything but I will cool my Pyrex rhetoric.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (7GMXG)

177 Hilary came out yesterday saying Trump AND Melania are both heavily involved with Epstein and yet no investigation is ongoing there.

___________________

I heard a clip of her last night, that voice

The Horror, The Horror

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (NtVYv)

178 But seriously, again, Trump has had two highly successful military operations in the past year that led to no ground war. When will you trust him?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:41 PM (2ocoG)
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Man, I want to have this sentiment but I:
1) Don't trust politicians, even Trump.
2) Have the aforementioned mistrust of our .mil leadership due to the aforementioned two-plus decades of dick-stepping.

You'll forgive me for being skeptical, I hope.

Posted by: ballistic at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (5aZAZ)

179 92 Hilary came out yesterday saying Trump AND Melania are both heavily involved with Epstein and yet no investigation is ongoing there. Scared the crap out of the 80 year old dementia don.

i've been reliably informed by the idiots on facebook that mar-a-lago was, in fact, the headquarters of the epstein trafficking network.

Posted by: anachronda at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (aaakC)

180 153
Whoops there we go with the anti semitisms again
Posted by: Coach Howard Schnebrllenegr
______

Shh... You're not allowed to wonder whether a foreign ethnostate run by a religion that only 2% of Americans belong to is devoted to advancing America's interests. If you do you're a Neo-Nazi.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (49ko9)

181 What I'm afraid of at the moment is the Greek Lasagna I piled on top of this pepperoni pizza slice.

This is probably a bad idea, but... here... we... go...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (XV/Pl)

182 "Death To America" sounds very warlike to me.
Posted by: runner

It's an internal struggle!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (FXNzP)

183 Trivia question is too easy. Even a potato eater would know that.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (8PrXA)

184 How come CNN is not reporting live from Iran?
Posted by: pudinhead at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (pZ64F)

This could be an historic time for the Tater. He should volunteer to report from Iran for CNN, and be the next Scud Stud. 🍿🍿

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (4tmpE)

185
I was gonna mention all that but I didn't want to complicate my point. Honestly I can always count on you to be right there on my wavelength. Scary thought I know
Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:46 PM (7GMXG)

Like two peas in a pod, except not ghey.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (HXiQ2)

186 158
China and Russia have technical observer teams in Iran, and are providing air defense equipment and training, and probably operating equipment themselves. If we lose people, it will be largely their doing.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 27, 2026 12:47 PM (azNOR)
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*Laughs in B-2 and EA-18G*

Posted by: ballistic at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (5aZAZ)

187 Various growing Democrat factions, it turns out, don't actually like black people very much.
———

Shit, even black people don’t like black people, near as I can figure.

Posted by: Ya Think? at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (l+ype)

188 "How could anyone think that?" after he provides a non stop stream of reasons.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (ce4EC)

It's a well worn leftard tactic unfortunately. Seems to be stopping short of the usual "you are the actual problem here" three part harmonizing, but it is definitely implied.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:52 PM (7GMXG)

189 Author Dan Simmons has died.

well I'm very very sad
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 27, 2026 12:45 PM (j+aD2)
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Carrion Comfort is an excellent book.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 27, 2026 12:52 PM (f1kZG)

190 This is a very different type of engagement. The nuclear facility attack in Iran and the Maduro extraction were discrete, achievable tasks, and the Trump administration did a great job there. Taking out the Iran regime, if that's our goal, is much broader and will not be achieved with a single engagement in a few hours.
Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 27, 2026 12:44 PM (qUkBO)

Bomb all the mosques. Every God-damned (literally) one of them. Bomb all known residences of regime insiders. Bomb all Revolutionary Guard installations. Bomb all known missile launch sites and storage depots. Let the regular military know that if they take out the remnants of the Mullahcracy and throw their support to the new Shah, they will be spared.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2026 12:52 PM (8zz6B)

191 Cucker's agitprop has been working only because he walked away from Fox recently, that after Fox-glow. But it is fading. This leftist douche (bonafides from PBS, CNN, NBC, you name it), who detests Trump and always has, walked into Fox news and then got to read what other wrote. Now that he is regurgitating his inner David Duke, people are not amused.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:52 PM (/M/4v)

192 While I pray for peace, I understand peace comes from strength.

I trust Trump.

I trust Jesus completely. If this is the start of WWIII, so be it.

The Muzzies are so often, "all hat and no cattle."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 27, 2026 12:52 PM (qFwJc)

193 166 Ya know, I didn't have "Masturbatin' Pete returns and is touting the Final Solution" on my bingo card.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026
_____

Well, there it is: a belief that America's relationship with Israel is counterproductive makes you a NeO-NaZi.

It's all so tiresome.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:53 PM (49ko9)

194 Like two peas in a pod, except not ghey.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (HXiQ2)

Straight as a three dollar bill

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:53 PM (7GMXG)

195 The Blade is hopeful but still very skeptical. This is about the 500,000th time he's heard this or similar.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

196 Have the aforementioned mistrust of our .mil leadership due to the aforementioned two-plus decades of dick-stepping.

I get it, I do. But in the same way that Trump can Just Do Things because he's not a politician, Hegseth can run successful .mil operations because he was actual boots on the ground and not a general. He knows what actually went wrong.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:54 PM (2ocoG)

197 Jihad refers to the internal struggle that every man faces.

/sarc

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 27, 2026 12:54 PM (qFwJc)

198 Goat out of here !

Posted by: The Mullahs Karazov at February 27, 2026 12:54 PM (NtVYv)

199 Trump and Malignia need to testify under oath about their heavy involvement with Epstein. The Dems must force him to testify next year.

Posted by: Sid at February 27, 2026 12:54 PM (Bhh+v)

200
Repeat after me: DONALD J. TRUMP IS NOT GEORGE W. BUSH.

I'm not sure how many times Trump has to go in and out and nobody on our side gets hurt before people actually believe he's not going to start a ground war, but it's happened twice in the last year already. Calm your tits.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:38 PM (2ocoG)

THIS

A blog has one person, who has children in the Air Force stateside, bemoaning the drums of potential war. Like she herself is going to fly a bomber. An expert, you see, because she reads X.

I want to slap her to the moon but refrain. If she sees and earthworm pop out of the near frozen ground she reburies the poor thing. Would have a cardiac arrest if she stepped on an ant or killed a killer bee.

Personlly I think she's wacko and probably a closet Dim womman. She irritates me. Questions why Bibi is in charge when he was not born in Israel. I am unsure where he thinks he was born. That he's not Orthodox.

I really wonder what on earth she does other than raking her yard, which must be down to bare dirt at this point.

I don't think she sleeps well for her Bibi worries, and flipped out when Trump ordered strikes on nukes in Iran.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 27, 2026 12:55 PM (WONhk)

201

This is baaad, baaad

Posted by: The goats of Iran at February 27, 2026 12:55 PM (NtVYv)

202 Don't really need to look at pizza orders in DC with all those ships over there and people being evacuated.

I find it kind of humorous that the mullahs think never ending talks is a good way of delay, but Trump just uses it to get things in position.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2026 12:55 PM (n5tGW)

203 143 THESE FUCKING ADS !

ah. the return of "10x stronger than viagra"

Posted by: anachronda at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (aaakC)

204 {Jane D'oh}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (RIvkX)

205 Jihad refers to the internal struggle that every man faces.

/sarc

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 27, 2026 12:54 PM (qFwJc)

Yes Jihad does mean struggle. Or as you may have heard it in German - Kampf.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (7GMXG)

206 Bomb all the mosques. Every God-damned (literally) one of them. Bomb all known residences of regime insiders. Bomb all Revolutionary Guard installations. Bomb all known missile launch sites and storage depots. Let the regular military know that if they take out the remnants of the Mullahcracy and throw their support to the new Shah, they will be spared.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2026 12:52 PM (8zz6B)

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And bomb Kharg Island and every other oil refinery facility.

Cut off the Head of their Financing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (GlkTu)

207 165 On a related note, Varney solicits viewer feedback on Fridays. This week, after several unsuccessful attempts on my part, they used one of my e-mails. And just like the 'Comments of the Week' here, I knew when I wrote it that it was a winner.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM
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Sorry I missed it
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 12:48 PM (RIvkX)

Varney's co-host Lauren Simonetti nearly always gets the trivia question right so I wrote:

'If I were ever at Lauren Simonetti's house and they pulled out the Trivial Pursuit game, I run, not walk for the exit'

Embarrassingly, they showed it verbatim, grammatical error and all......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (QGaXH)

208 Whatever happened to that shrink from Yale who diagnoses PDJT despite never having met him? She could have a field day with Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (nECtM)

209 Elric, this is the first time it has been said with 3 Carrier Strike groups in place., hundreds of fighter jets, refuelers and Comms control aircraft.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (+nEug)

210 199 Trump and Malignia need to testify under oath about their heavy involvement with Epstein. The Dems must force him to testify next year.

Posted by: Sid at February 27, 2026 12:54 PM (Bhh+v)

Magik 8-Ball sez, "SCOTUS says no"

Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (5rh/l)

211 Remember, No one wants the US to get entangled in Iran more than China.

They are egging them on, supplying arms (of some sort - reportedly air defense) and advisors.

Russia too, to take some pressure off them in Ukraine. And the strait is calm in the Spring. There is another window in the Fall, but China will avoid the typhoon season because they consider themselves heirs to the Mongol glory and everyone remembers what happened to them in Japan.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (ce4EC)

212 Oh I was reading about the first "openly trans legislator" who I vaguely recalled from before because he's from NH.

"Stacie-Marie" Laughton was convicted in 2008 for credit card fraud and sentenced to 15 years but only served one.

In 2015 he was again convicted this time for calling in a bomb threat to a hospital. No jail time

In 2020 he was elected to the NH legislature

In 2022 he was convicted of stalking someone - I can't see if he got any jail time.

In 2023 he was arrested for child sexual exploitation and convicted of it in 2025.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

213 WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders vowed to force a vote on a war powers resolution to stop President Trump from launching an attack on Iran without Congressional approval.

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (ZxPkt)

214 187 Shit, even black people don’t like black people, near as I can figure.
Posted by: Ya Think? at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (l+ype)

This being comment "187" is actually kind of hilarious.

Posted by: XTC at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (wa/yD)

215 Vincent Van Gogh is the correct answer, as anyone who listened to '70's music recalls....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (QGaXH)

216 There's never room for J A L L OH.

Posted by: XTC at February 27, 2026 12:38 PM (wa/yD)

Jello Biafra >>> Abdul Jello

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (wtvvX)

217 Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have drafted a bipartisan resolution under the War Powers Act to block Trump from attacking Iran.

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:58 PM (ZxPkt)

218 213 WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders vowed to force a vote on a war powers resolution to stop President Trump from launching an attack on Iran without Congressional approval.
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (ZxPkt)

And some RINO"s are voting with the Dems

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2026 12:58 PM (VE6XX)

219 A warning from Acosta.

Jim Acosta
@Acosta
As I’ve been warning, America now has state-compromised media. When 60 Min or CNN is in trouble, we’re all in trouble. Trump has cracked the code in how to hurt the press. Free speech is now at risk. MAGA corporations must not control the news. Support independent media.

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How can they get a decent echo chamber going if people can just say what they think and challenge media lies?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 27, 2026 12:58 PM (FXNzP)

220 89 77 1. What is our goal in attacking Iran?
2. Is it achievable?
3. At what cost?

I would love to wake up to a Mullah-free Iran, but I fear an echo of 2004-2008: A disasterous ME engagement + massive job losses from AI that tanks the economy = Obama 2.0, only this time the Democrat-Communists will not be fooling around and we will be well and truly fucked.
Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at February 27, 2026 12:34 PM (qUkBO)

The first bit is just common sense. The second essay is just fearful crap. You cannot let the fear of what the enemy MIGHT do paralyze you from doing anything. They are going to try to strap the rat cages on no matter what we do or don't do. We'll have to deal with that one way or another, but letting it paralyze us is NOT the answer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 12:37 PM (bss/y)

***

Concur.
You can bet a ton of planning has been going on, and continues, on how and what to do. It will be like conducting an orchestra with different parts all adding to the whole.
Throughout it all, the enemy gets a vote, and we have to be ready for that. If we aren't, then we don't start anything until we have war-gamed it out.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 27, 2026 12:58 PM (2WIwB)

221 Cucker for the last 1/2 year been promoting Islam and the Islamo-Nazi countries who live under Sharia as America's best friens! His tour of arab countries and his nonstop propaganda about how awesome it is to live in Durka Durka was precious.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 12:58 PM (/M/4v)

222 Artemis III was originally a moon landing mission? I always read that it was only going to orbit the moon then return to Earf

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2026 12:58 PM (Y1sOo)

223 I am amused at how the left is jumping back and forth between the arguments:

You can't trust any of the stuff in the Epstein files its all a bunch of BS...LEAVE CLINTON ALONE. Oh and every other leftwing pol, academic and celebrity mentioned

and

If Trump's name is anywhere in the Epstein files he's a client and had sex with children.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

224 I wouldn't bomb Kharg Island, I'd just take it like Greenland.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2026 12:59 PM (n5tGW)

225
Reminder: Ben Rhodes wasn't wrong about the echo chamber.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 27, 2026 12:59 PM (5pERN)

226 Remember, No one wants the US to get entangled in Iran more than China.

In the geopolitical Risk game, neutralizing Venezuela and Iran's oil exports to China is even better than having Kamchatka.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 12:59 PM (2ocoG)

227 Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have drafted a bipartisan resolution under the War Powers Act to block Trump from attacking Iran.
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Unless they have the votes to override a veto, they're just attention-whoring as usual.

Posted by: Methos at February 27, 2026 12:59 PM (vSvIl)

228 167 110 Who painted 'The Starry Night'?

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 12:40 PM

Vinnie for the win!!

"Starry Night" is one of my favorites paintings. Displayed at the MoMa in NYC, a block from where I work.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (qoLdL)

Has it made the Art Thread? It's not big time unless it makes the Art Thread

Maybe CBD will see - if he hasn't used it already....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 01:00 PM (QGaXH)

229 evacuations happing all over the middle east. Could be an eventful weekend.

Posted by: WisRich at February 27, 2026 01:01 PM (G0vdT)

230 I think it was Touisi who reported that they are forcing Iran's "parliamentarians' to stay in the chambers. Basically they cannot leave. Implying that there is a command and control of some sort underneath.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:01 PM (/M/4v)

231 Elric, this is the first time it has been said with 3 Carrier Strike groups in place., hundreds of fighter jets, refuelers and Comms control aircraft.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (+nEug)
_____

You don't need all that for a strike. A strike could have been done at any time. As I've been saying, I'll believe it when I see it. I've been assured for decades now that Iran is about to fall. I was assured -- promised -- months ago by pretty much everyone on this site that the regime "wouldn't last a week." It's still there. I'm now hearing yet again that "the end is imminent!" Believe it when I see it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

232 Whatever happened to that shrink from Yale who diagnoses PDJT despite never having met him?

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Drive by psychoanalysis is far more efficient and cost effective.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 27, 2026 01:01 PM (FXNzP)

233 I'd like to know what DJT told the Dem House and Senate leaders in a closed door meeting a few days ago. The meeting, that afterwards, rocked Schumer so much that it was said Chuck told the President that he needed to put the matter before the American people.

Posted by: mrp at February 27, 2026 01:01 PM (rj6Yv)

234 Kharg Island is near the Strait of Homos. It must be important to muslims as mohamed liked it in the can.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 01:01 PM (8PrXA)

235 Bomb all the mosques. Every God-damned (literally) one of them. Bomb all known residences of regime insiders. Bomb all Revolutionary Guard installations. Bomb all known missile launch sites and storage depots. Let the regular military know that if they take out the remnants of the Mullahcracy and throw their support to the new Shah, they will be spared.

Co-signed.

Incidentally, apparently Qatar won't let us use our base there to bomb Iran so everyone there is being moved to other bases in the region, including in Israel.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 01:01 PM (2ocoG)

236 It's all so tiresome.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2026 12:53 PM (49ko9)
=====

Awwwww.

Maybe if you made any points to explain the "counterproductivity" you see.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 01:01 PM (RIvkX)

237 35 Years ago I was sitting on a Destroyer as part of the USS Ranger Battle Group, right smack dab in the middle of Desert Storm.

We had SEVEN Carriers there.

Now.... ONE? How far has my Navy fallen.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (mP0Kj)

238 I wouldn't bomb Kharg Island, I'd just take it like Greenland.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2026 12:59 PM (n5tGW)

Once you have achieved regime change, you want the new regime to have a source of income.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (8zz6B)

239 227 Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have drafted a bipartisan resolution under the War Powers Act to block Trump from attacking Iran.
-
Unless they have the votes to override a veto, they're just attention-whoring as usual.
Posted by: Methos at February 27, 2026 12:59 PM (vSvIl)
----
Those two should just get a hotel room already.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (cWLG3)

240 222 Artemis III was originally a moon landing mission? I always read that it was only going to orbit the moon then return to Earf

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2026 12:58 PM (Y1sOo)

no, the Artemis mission that hasn't been able to launch so far, Artemis 2, is a lunar fly-around mission. Like Apollo 8. Artemis 3 has been planned as the first new lunar landing mission, for at least the last 5 or more years.

Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (5rh/l)

241 Who painted 'The Starry Night'?

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali
_________

Hunter Biden

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

242 We can't have good art on an art thread.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (8PrXA)

243 Heh. Gaining Intel from pizza deliveries. Back in the early 70s our little outfit would go on day crew stay crew, maybe getting ready for deployment to Yuma or elsewhere. NAF DC, the poor part of Andrews. No delivery, just take up a collection and send a couple guys to get it. One favored place was in Anacostia Park and we always sent two guys with the duty NCO's .45. Great ribs and chicken comes at a price.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (gm9Sb)

244 183 Trivia question is too easy. Even a potato eater would know that.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (8PrXA)

I don't pick 'em Boss....(laughing!)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (QGaXH)

245
"Starry Night" is one of my favorites paintings. Displayed at the MoMa in NYC, a block from where I work.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at February 27, 2026 12:49 PM (qoLdL)

I love the Met Museum and used to spend days there when my husband had business trips.

That painting...wow...Van Gogh really was feeling his oats that day with the spackle. I was amazed at how thick he laid it on the canvas.

I really wanted all this Mullah, Ummah, Caliphate done and turned to dust after 9/11. Then GWB blathered about the "peaceful religion" and I knew it was not to be.

Who would think post 9/11 that a moose limb would be elected mayor in NYC?

Whatever Trump et Co decide I am fine. I'd like Persian women to join this century after what they've endured since the '70's.

Something has to be done. Islam is the herpes of the ME.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (WONhk)

246 Latest changes to the Artemis program:

It is now a low cost shuttle flight service between Miami and Washington DC

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (ZxPkt)

247 It's very telling that Iranians living in the United States refer to themselves as "Persian" and not Iranian. There are a lot of wonderful and decent people still trapped in Iran.

Posted by: Max Power at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (q177U)

248 The one in the middle is definitely willie nelson

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 27, 2026 01:03 PM (HTa/G)

249 emember, No one wants the US to get entangled in Iran more than China.

==

The opposite, killing off China's massive oil supply from Iran , they get it for nothing, will do us a world of good. Iran fueled China's rise from 3rd world craphole with 90% agrarian class, to 2nd economy in the world.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:03 PM (/M/4v)

250 Man, what the hell happened to Tucker?

Posted by: Tylor Chase at February 27, 2026 01:03 PM (7Q0e+)

251 237 35 Years ago I was sitting on a Destroyer as part of the USS Ranger Battle Group, right smack dab in the middle of Desert Storm.

We had SEVEN Carriers there.

Now.... ONE? How far has my Navy fallen.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (mP0Kj)

OK... reading upthread.,... apparently three Carriers?

OK... not bad...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 27, 2026 01:03 PM (mP0Kj)

252 @234 The Bay of Pigs is a buffer zone.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 27, 2026 01:03 PM (cWLG3)

253 177 Hilary came out yesterday saying Trump AND Melania are both heavily involved with Epstein and yet no investigation is ongoing there.

___________________

I heard a clip of her last night, that voice

The Horror, The Horror
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 27, 2026 12:50 PM (NtVYv)

What a lying sack of shit that chlamydia thundershart is.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (i0Hi3)

254 I ran across some old FNM articles on Khomeni and the Iranian revolution and wow was it a bunch of BS propaganda.

Khomeni was a moderate you see. He just wanted a free, pluralistic Iran unlike that evil Shah who killed like ones of people or something.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)

255 The Iranian people have been burning down the mosques

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (+nEug)

256 As I’ve been warning, America now has state-compromised media.

Duuuude!, that started 100 years ago, you were part of it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (n5tGW)

257 They couldn't have gassed all those Joos, the "showers" weren't hermetically sealed! They had wooden doors! "Zyklon B" was just a delousing agent! The "ovens" were for baking matzo! The Nazis just made the numbers up for propaganda purposes! All those piles of clothes were donations for a rummage sale!

Posted by: Masturbatin' Yankeefilth at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (TbWk/)

258 Now that the fkng Supreme court libs made tariffs problematic, cutting off Chicom's oil supple would be an awesome move.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (/M/4v)

259 Man, what the hell happened to Tucker?

Nothing. He just dropped the mask is all.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (5slMQ)

260 I wonder.

Has Iran considered itself at war with America since 1978?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

Probably since they ripped up the Vienna Convention of 1961 on November 4, 1979.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (fYhK6)

261 250 Man, what the hell happened to Tucker?
Posted by: Tylor Chase at February 27, 2026 01:03 PM (7Q0e+)

Qatari Qash.

Posted by: XTC at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (1YL6+)

262 213 WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders vowed to force a vote on a war powers resolution to stop President Trump from launching an attack on Iran without Congressional approval.
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (ZxPkt)

Parliamentary fuckery abounds so maybe they have an angle, but, how?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (w/O5Q)

263 Questions why Bibi is in charge when he was not born in Israel.

----------

Bibi was born in Tel Aviv in 1949.

BTW, The Wifey and I will miss the TX MoMe later this year as we will be touring The Holy Land in October.

[I'm considering getting re-baptized by a Messianic Jewish Rabbi in The Jordan River.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 27, 2026 01:05 PM (GlkTu)

264 As usual, the words of Tucker Carlson, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen.
The postings of the blog varied from day to day, but there was none in which Carlson was not the principal figure…

Posted by: Orwell should have stuck to Catalonia at February 27, 2026 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

265 203 143 THESE FUCKING ADS !

ah. the return of "10x stronger than viagra"
Posted by: anachronda at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (aaakC)

What?

Eating healthy?

Exercise?

Getting good sleep?

Being with someone you actually desire and are attracted to?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 01:05 PM (bss/y)

266 248 The one in the middle is definitely willie nelson
Posted by: Commissar

-----------

The one in the middle is on the Left

Posted by: Johnny Cash at February 27, 2026 01:05 PM (ce4EC)

267
This is kind of my point. Protests have been simmering for a month or more... why does there not seem to be more widespread revolt? I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Maybe the mullahs aren't as unpopular as we're led to believe?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (Cqx++)

268 255 The Iranian people have been burning down the mosques
Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (+nEug)

Ah, watch out
You might get what you're after
Cool babies
Strange but not a stranger
I'm just an ordinary guy
Burning down the mosque

Posted by: Talking Persian Heads at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (TbWk/)

269 Personally I don't see why you'd ever publicly oppose Israel now that Jewish Space Lasers are real.

That means the reveal of the weather machine is just a matter of time. Or CBD has one too many Manhattans and leaves it out somewhere.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (2ocoG)

270 264 As usual, the words of Tucker Carlson, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen.
The postings of the blog varied from day to day, but there was none in which Carlson was not the principal figure…
Posted by: Orwell should have stuck to Catalonia at February 27, 2026 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

Tucker Carlson=Emanuel Goldstein

That is kind of perfect.

Still, I do think certain peoples are a bit too obsessed with him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (bss/y)

271 OK... reading upthread.,... apparently three Carriers?
-
I think Lincoln has been there for a while and Ford just arrived, but which is the third?

Posted by: Methos at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (vSvIl)

272 239 227 Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have drafted a bipartisan resolution under the War Powers Act to block Trump from attacking Iran.
-
Unless they have the votes to override a veto, they're just attention-whoring as usual.
Posted by: Methos at February 27, 2026 12:59 PM (vSvIl)

Some people just will do anything for a whiny, toothless America.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (fYhK6)

273 While it is not a panacea by any means, getting yourself in decent physical shape will resolve some health issues that might make you think you need "10x Viagra".

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

274 Maybe the mullahs aren't as unpopular as we're led to believe?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (Cqx++)

Or, maybe there is no strong leadership on the other side? Which would be a problem even if we succeed in toppling the mullahs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (bss/y)

275 no, the Artemis mission that hasn't been able to launch so far, Artemis 2, is a lunar fly-around mission. Like Apollo 8
——-

Not even. Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and remained for 10 revolutions, a much more technically sophisticated maneuver than a slingshot around the Moon on a “free return” trajectory.

This was the original plan for 8, but smart folks decided “as long as we’re there…”, and wanted to study Mascons. The SPS motor had to work, but it had to work anyway.

Posted by: Ya Think? at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (lRO1C)

276 So what are the targets in Iran. Military of course, but what else?: refineries? Leadership? Getting arms to rebel forces?

Posted by: WisRich at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (G0vdT)

277 WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders vowed to force a vote on a war powers resolution to stop President Trump from launching an attack on Iran without Congressional approval.
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (ZxPkt)

Parliamentary fuckery abounds so maybe they have an angle, but, how?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (w/O5Q)

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

Here is a Distinction WITH a Difference:

Congress has the Constitutional Power to "Declare War."

The POTUS has the Constitutional Power to MAKE War.

TL

R? lol gf

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (GlkTu)

278 This is kind of my point. Protests have been simmering for a month or more... why does there not seem to be more widespread revolt? I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Maybe the mullahs aren't as unpopular as we're led to believe?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (Cqx++)
____

The protests were mostly an op. Remember all the pics of pretty Iranians smoking cigarettes and dancing in the streets? All fake. I believe about as much coming out of Iran as I do Uke.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

279 Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have drafted a bipartisan resolution under the War Powers Act to block Trump from attacking Iran.
-
Unless they have the votes to override a veto, they're just attention-whoring as usual.

Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie attention whoring? Say it ain't so!

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (2ocoG)

280 Posted by: Orwell should have stuck to Catalonia at February 27, 2026 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

The Spanish recognize a Palestinian state and brutally suppress Catalan independence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2026 01:08 PM (RIvkX)

281 Romeo13, what hasn't been mentioned is the amount of subs
that are there also.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 01:08 PM (+nEug)

282 BTW if we are getting arms to rebels in Iran, can we also start doing the same for groups opposed to their tyrannical regimes in Europe?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

283 The protests were mostly an op. Remember all the pics of pretty Iranians smoking cigarettes and dancing in the streets? All fake. I believe about as much coming out of Iran as I do Uke.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

Ok, that's a possibility. To what end?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 01:08 PM (bss/y)

284 >-I think Lincoln has been there for a while and Ford just arrived, but which is the third?

-----

Mercury

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 01:08 PM (ZxPkt)

285 I know many are axing "What happened to Tucker". NOTHIG! He was always like that. He was always agitprop, shallow, not particularly smart elitist douche. He learned his agitprop from daddy and is now gaslighting for cash and ego.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:08 PM (/M/4v)

286 While it is not a panacea by any means, getting yourself in decent physical shape will resolve some health issues that might make you think you need "10x Viagra".

Oh, is *that* why Ace is into GAINZZZ?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

287 They already did. At great cost, in 1968. That’s what makes all this BS sixty years later so pathetic.
Posted by: Common Tater

Considering the advances in materials science we've made in the last 60 years, saying that the tests we did 60 years ago are adequate is... kinda dumb.

You have to test the new materials and the new designs. You can't rely on tests of materials and designs you're no longer using to determining the safety of the test and designs you are currently using.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM (a+4eV)

288 270 Tucker Carlson=Emanuel Goldstein

That is kind of perfect.

Still, I do think certain peoples are a bit too obsessed with him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (bss/y)

If Tucker doesn't want the Two Minutes Hate, Tucker can STFU about Israel, Zionism, and Jewish Conspiracy Theories.

Posted by: XTC at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM (1YL6+)

289 213 WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders vowed to force a vote on a war powers resolution to stop President Trump from launching an attack on Iran without Congressional approval.
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 12:57 PM (ZxPkt)

Every Democrat is praying to one heathen god or another for massive US casualties during the Iran beat-down. Traitors.

Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM (5rh/l)

290 219 A warning from Acosta.

Jim Acosta
@Acosta
As I’ve been warning, America now has state-compromised media. When 60 Min or CNN is in trouble, we’re all in trouble. Trump has cracked the code in how to hurt the press. Free speech is now at risk. MAGA corporations must not control the news. Support independent media.

He should know, as he was the State’s biggest whore.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM (fYhK6)

291 The Spanish recognize a Palestinian state and brutally suppress Catalan independence.

Yeah I remember when they arrested those guys saying at the time you can't support independence movements in places like Gaza and oppose it at home.

Unlike "Palestine", Aragon/Catalonia have a separate culture from the rest of Spain and an independent history.

And yet...they did it anyway

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

292
The opposite, killing off China's massive oil supply from Iran , they get it for nothing, will do us a world of good. Iran fueled China's rise from 3rd world craphole with 90% agrarian class, to 2nd economy in the world.
Posted by: runner
-----------

Well that's a stretch. The USA fueled China's rise with our tech, our market, and our defense of free trade.

Iran may have supplied the oil but right now China has money and it will hurt them less than it will hurt EU (not sure I care about that) but it will also help Russia if they can keep selling black market (do you see what Trump is doing there?) Canada is a growing problem though.

Posted by: Johnny Cash at February 27, 2026 01:10 PM (ce4EC)

293 The protests were mostly an op.

==

This is bullshit. There are real protest and real casualties. In the tens of thousands.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:10 PM (/M/4v)

294 3rd is the USS George H W Bush

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 01:10 PM (+nEug)

295 Shall we Rock the Casbah ?

Sharif he don like it

Posted by: The goats of Iran at February 27, 2026 01:10 PM (NtVYv)

296 82 Erika Lesbian Seagull was the unsuccessful sequel to Jonathon Livingston Seagull.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 27, 2026 12:36 PM (omSBT)

Yeaaaaaaah!

Posted by: Modern audience at February 27, 2026 01:10 PM (i0Hi3)

297 If Tucker doesn't want the Two Minutes Hate, Tucker can STFU about Israel, Zionism, and Jewish Conspiracy Theories.
Posted by: XTC at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM (1YL6+)

But He’s Just Asking Questions.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 27, 2026 01:10 PM (fYhK6)

298 Remember all the pics of pretty Iranians smoking cigarettes and dancing in the streets? All fake. I believe about as much coming out of Iran as I do Uke.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

IIRC they were real, but they weren't in Iran.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 27, 2026 01:10 PM (a+4eV)

299 At the end of the day, Tucker Carlson is a media entertainment personality, he was entertaining, he is no longer entertaining.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 27, 2026 01:10 PM (XV/Pl)

300 We need to run guns to the Englishmen

the real ones, the native population

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (ZxPkt)

301 Posted by: Gref

Ah, okay. I got my Artemises mixed up.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (Y1sOo)

302 291 The Spanish recognize a Palestinian state and brutally suppress Catalan independence.

Yeah I remember when they arrested those guys saying at the time you can't support independence movements in places like Gaza and oppose it at home.

Unlike "Palestine", Aragon/Catalonia have a separate culture from the rest of Spain and an independent history.

And yet...they did it anyway
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

IMO, Catalan is a much more pleasant-sounding language than "regular" Spanish.

Posted by: XTC at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (1YL6+)

303 I'll say this, except for the blogs, the media is being pretty quite about these evacuations in the middle east.

Posted by: WisRich at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (G0vdT)

304 Tucker also seem to have gone insane.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (XV/Pl)

305 Oh, is *that* why Ace is into GAINZZZ?

Well, you don't think he bench presses dead stormtroopers for the LULZ do you?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

306 O/T if Ben Had is still here!

Your name popped up in my post zapping of benign stuff yesterday's nap. I look like I was dragged through a rose bush by my hair, but it will be worth it.

Anyway, I rarely nap, but the mental exertion of not yelling for her to stop in the 30min torture (numbing cream did nada)...your name came up in the nap dream.

I was at my last horror job and a former bf had messed up my desk.I was trying to find the bakery # to call for Easter cakes. Then I found the Ben Had Bakery (which appeared to be Jewish to add to the insanity). I was thrilled at success and woke.

I cracked up that your name was in my dream (because I dream in color and read).

The bf's name was mentioned to my husband the day prior. I am making Emeril's Coconut Cream cake soon for my 5yr old granddaughter's bday. And organizing an Easter Egg hunt.

Just thought you should know! Giddyup!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (WONhk)

307 231 Elric, this is the first time it has been said with 3 Carrier Strike groups in place., hundreds of fighter jets, refuelers and Comms control aircraft.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 12:56 PM (+nEug)
_____

You don't need all that for a strike. A strike could have been done at any time. As I've been saying, I'll believe it when I see it. I've been assured for decades now that Iran is about to fall. I was assured -- promised -- months ago by pretty much everyone on this site that the regime "wouldn't last a week." It's still there. I'm now hearing yet again that "the end is imminent!" Believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

Oddly reminiscent of all the times we heard 'the walls are closing in on the Trump administration...'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (QGaXH)

308 Wow.. somehow missed that one.... seems Pakistan just declared War on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Hope they already took possession of all the US Military equipment they wanted from there.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 27, 2026 01:12 PM (mP0Kj)

309 276 So what are the targets in Iran. Military of course, but what else?: refineries? Leadership? Getting arms to rebel forces?
Posted by: WisRich at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (G0vdT)

Def gonna rock the casbah.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 27, 2026 01:12 PM (i0Hi3)

310 I forgot Richard Bach's name and long ago I read most of his books.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 01:12 PM (8PrXA)

311 Looking at Owen's attacks on Erika Kirk it is almost comical now - whenever the left doesn't like someone they call him/her gay and now a groomer.

While at the same time arguing there is nothing wrong with being gay or a groomer

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

312 Some people just will do anything for a whiny, toothless America.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 27, 2026 01:06 PM (fYhK6)

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

This is about Feinstein, Pelosi, Swallowswell, Newscum, et. al. -- and their ChiComm Masters -- isn't it?

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 27, 2026 01:13 PM (GlkTu)

313 301 Posted by: Gref

Ah, okay. I got my Artemises mixed up.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (Y1sOo)

Don't feel bad. I don't think NASA managers can keep anything involving a schedule sorted-out nowadays.

Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2026 01:13 PM (5rh/l)

314 This could be an historic time for the Tater. He should volunteer to report from Iran for CNN, and be the next Scud Stud. 🍿🍿
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (4tmpE)

More like Scud Spud.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 27, 2026 01:13 PM (NcvvS)

315 Unless your first baptism was invalid, a make the second one conditional.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 27, 2026 01:13 PM (qFwJc)

316 The Artemis program is now a rade-sharing app, in partnership with Burger King and 7-11

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 01:13 PM (ZxPkt)

317 308 Wow.. somehow missed that one.... seems Pakistan just declared War on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Hope they already took possession of all the US Military equipment they wanted from there.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 27, 2026 01:12 PM (mP0Kj)

=====

Since the Taliban runs Afghanistan, it's more accurate to say that Pakistan declared war on Afghanistan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

318 This is bullshit. There are real protest and real casualties. In the tens of thousands.
Posted by: runner

-------------
Sadly, this appears very true.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 27, 2026 01:13 PM (ce4EC)

319 Look at it this way. There couldn't be an escalation in our Iran strategy until after the State of the Union address. There needed to be a concentration on the Economy without distractions.

Now, that's behind us and Iran needs to affix their "Flaming Special Needs Hotdog Helments™".

Posted by: Orson at February 27, 2026 01:14 PM (dIske)

320 Well that's a stretch. The USA fueled China's rise with our tech, our market, and our defense of free trade.

===

You cannot fuels something without fuel. China would not be able to meet capacity, colume of orders in every industry around the globe, if it wasn't for Iran. Chicoms would take western tycoons to show off how their production. All fueled by Iran's very cheap sanctioned oil. And that is how they continued even under western sanctions. China, for payments in crypto and in gold.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:14 PM (/M/4v)

321 241 Who painted 'The Starry Night'?

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali
_________

Hunter Biden
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

Bless yo' hart...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2026 01:14 PM (QGaXH)

322 286 While it is not a panacea by any means, getting yourself in decent physical shape will resolve some health issues that might make you think you need "10x Viagra".

Oh, is *that* why Ace is into GAINZZZ?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

Erections harder than AT-ST armor.

Posted by: Now THAT'S hard! at February 27, 2026 01:14 PM (TbWk/)

323 Secretariat of State John Kerry.
Well there's a horse I haven't seen in a while, thankfully.

Posted by: wth at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (UjdFS)

324 WAIT

The Artemis program is now an online video game, borrowing heavily from Space Invaders and Pong

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (ZxPkt)

325 Perfidious Brit...Starmer, Blair, Sunak, BoJo

Posted by: night lifted at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (kJmLc)

326 Bill Clinton
@BillClinton
As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals.

-
Well, I knew Bill had personally experienced domestic violence dodging lamps and whatnot.

Bill's statement.

https://is.gd/NqymVK

(He's going with the Sergeant Schultz defense.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (FXNzP)

327 The protests were mostly an op. Remember all the pics of pretty Iranians smoking cigarettes and dancing in the streets? All fake. I believe about as much coming out of Iran as I do Uke.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

Ok, that's a possibility. To what end?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 01:08 PM (bss/y)
_________

Who knows? Some new shiny object to generate interest and especially money? These protests magically appeared the moment that Pahlavi guy decides he wants a shot at power in Iran, but he needs a lot of western money and muscle. Seems suspicious timing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are a lot of factions inside and outside Iran who want the mullahs gone. I sure do.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (iFTx/)

328
"I was assured -- promised -- months ago by pretty much everyone on this site that the regime "wouldn't last a week."

I don't recall that, Elric, and I was here at the time. I just remember reading that people hoped that Iran would fall, not that they said it would . No promises by anyone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (Nx5jP)

329 Hope they already ~~took possession of~~destroyed all the US Military equipment they ~~wanted~~found from there.

FIFY

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (qFwJc)

330 I forgot Richard Bach's name and long ago I read most of his books.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 01:12 PM (8PrXA)

Heh,
I did an interpretive reading of JLS in a college freshman English class. Got an A for it too.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (2WIwB)

331 Bomb all the mosques. Every God-damned (literally) one of them. Bomb all known residences of regime insiders.

Why not do that in the West first?

How did I get hijacked into forsaking my own country and home to underwrite a quagmire on the opposite of the planet for people who hate me?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (a6PrB)

332 241 Who painted 'The Starry Night'?

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Salvador Dali
_________

Hunter Biden
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

I think he painted Shitty Night

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (NtVYv)

333 Russia is very quiet. Now that they got 1/2 trillion dollars richer from Iran moving gold and crypto into their banks. That is why Russia is really looking forward to wrapping up with Ukraine They want sanctions lifted, and spend a bit of cash!

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (/M/4v)

334 Remember all the pics of pretty Iranians smoking cigarettes and dancing in the streets? All fake. I believe about as much coming out of Iran as I do Uke.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

IIRC they were real, but they weren't in Iran.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 27, 2026 01:10 PM (a+4eV)
____

Yea. A few were taken in Canada ... three years ago.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

335 As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals.

Did he miss the scantily clad girl giving him an "erotic massage" the dozens of time it happened?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (sKqQm)

336 saying that the tests we did 60 years ago are adequate is... kinda dumb.
———

Try to read for content. They had all this stuff figured out 60 years ago, at great cost to both lives and money.

Congress, and others, threw it all away. 60 years wasted. Completely.

Now they have to start all over again. You’ve proved my point very well. Thanks for that, I guess.

Posted by: Ya Think? at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (lRO1C)

337 304 Tucker also seem to have gone insane.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 27, 2026 01:11 PM (XV/Pl)

Took a dive, nice villa in Qatar.

Posted by: night lifted at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (kJmLc)

338 251 237 35 Years ago I was sitting on a Destroyer as part of the USS Ranger Battle Group, right smack dab in the middle of Desert Storm.

We had SEVEN Carriers there.

Now.... ONE? How far has my Navy fallen.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 27, 2026 01:02 PM (mP0Kj)

OK... reading upthread.,... apparently three Carriers?

OK... not bad...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 27, 2026 01:03 PM (mP0Kj)
I would prefer my good old 600 ship Navy now.

Posted by: Eromero at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (LHPAg)

339 Tucker also seem to have gone insane.

Its the $$$.

The same cast of characters is funding him, Fuentes, and Owens.

It isn't "crazy" its keeping your rice bowl full.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:17 PM (sKqQm)

340 326 Bill Clinton
@BillClinton
As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals.

-
Well, I knew Bill had personally experienced domestic violence dodging lamps and whatnot.

Bill's statement.

https://is.gd/NqymVK

(He's going with the Sergeant Schultz defense.)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 27, 2026 01:15 PM (FXNzP)

If his ego is bruised maybe he should go put some ice on it.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 27, 2026 01:17 PM (w/O5Q)

341 I would prefer my good old 600 ship Navy now.
Posted by: Eromero at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (LHPAg)

Us too!

Posted by: Taiwan at February 27, 2026 01:18 PM (2WIwB)

342 The best part of sex with twenty eight year olds?

There is 20 of them!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 27, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

343 Seems like those refit recharges on nooklear ships are taking longer and longer.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 01:18 PM (8PrXA)

344 Posted by: Masturbatin' Yankeefilth at February 27, 2026 01:04 PM (TbWk/)

sleepless in florida says what?

Posted by: old chick at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (F3Dlr)

345 As someone pointed out, there is a reason no one on the left is attacking Tucker or Owens.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (GWiMx)

346
289

Every Democrat is praying to one heathen god or another for massive US casualties during the Iran beat-down. Traitors.
Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2026 01:09 PM

------

It's a short step from that, to looking for ways to make it happen.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (VWtfl)

347 Who would trust the Clinton's with anything they have to say?
They have lied so much about so much. It's almost laughable.

Posted by: Case at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (Z3Kkg)

348 As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself
——-

What? LOL. That isn’t a real statement by Billy Jeff is it? Not possible.

Posted by: Ya Think? at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (5119n)

349 32,000 protestors have been killed and tens of thousands more have been tortured.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (+nEug)

350 The current situation is seeming like a Tom Clancey novel. FWIW, the good guys always win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (XeU6L)

351 I forgot Richard Bach's name and long ago I read most of his books.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 01:12 PM (8PrXA)

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

I had a girlfriend who was really into him and his wife (and out-of-body experiences back in the early 90s ), so I too read most of his books (he of course was most famous for "Jonathan Livingston Seagull") -- and I have an extremely vivid recollection of a dream (that this girlfriend had the same night) where we were making passionate love.

Gotta admit, it was creepy AF ... but I'll take it!

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (GlkTu)

352 345 As someone pointed out, there is a reason no one on the left is attacking Tucker or Owens.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (GWiMx)

====

WaPo is promoting Owens' Erika Kirk videos now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

353 I like Michael’s Orion-Drive for a new rocket system. Could be a little bumpy.

Posted by: banana Dream - God was knocking, and he wanted in bad at February 27, 2026 01:20 PM (3uBP9)

354 Posted by: old chick at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (F3Dlr)

you are kind of nasty, aren't you

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:20 PM (/M/4v)

355 350 The current situation is seeming like a Tom Clancey novel. FWIW, the good guys always win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (XeU6L)

====

And then the CIA takes the presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 27, 2026 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

356 Was Black Block Antifah ever declared a terrorist organization?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 27, 2026 01:20 PM (8PrXA)

357 The BR gaslighting -

The P5+1 Davos "no-paper" deal.

Obama's cutout Catherine Ashton met with Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif in a "one on one" meeting to hash out the sham.

Obama secretly granted Ashton plenipotentiary power to make and conclude the Iran deal. If things went sideways he could fault Ashton.

"Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy."

Nov 21, 2013 "Negotiations between Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, in Geneva, have been "very substantial and detailed," Ashton's spokesman says."

"Michael Mann made the remarks on Thursday following a one-on-one meeting between Zarif and Ashton."

Posted by: 13times at February 27, 2026 01:20 PM (pyb5y)

358 No expert at all, but in our time are not blue water navy surface ships kind of sitting ducks for high end weaponry??

Posted by: tubal at February 27, 2026 01:21 PM (pDt9x)

359 Tucker Carlson got sick of being called antisemitic by the perfidious Satanic Jews who drink Christian babies' blood, and so he reached out to one of these Jewish Mind-Controllers to ask him how he could convince the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy to stop calling him antisemitic.

This particular Perfidious Jew, Yoram Hazony, told him he could start by ending his constant claims that Jews are engaged in a constant aggression against Christians and start all the wars in the world for no reason at all except to spread the Nefarious Jew Conspiracy.

Tucker Carlson then said, "Short of that, I mean."
++++
Did you mean for this to be a metaphor for negotiating with Iran, or is that just a happy bonus?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 27, 2026 01:21 PM (48xL/)

360 As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals.

Did he miss the scantily clad girl giving him an "erotic massage" the dozens of time it happened?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (sKqQm)

Come in here, girl, have a cigar, you're gonna go far

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 27, 2026 01:21 PM (NtVYv)

361 I would prefer my good old 600 ship Navy now.
Posted by: Eromero at February 27, 2026 01:16 PM (LHPAg)
=====

Somali pirates defrauded the American People for the tune of at LEAST $19 B in Minnesota alone. That would buy a couple of DDGs if not more.

Posted by: mrp at February 27, 2026 01:21 PM (rj6Yv)

362 275 no, the Artemis mission that hasn't been able to launch so far, Artemis 2, is a lunar fly-around mission. Like Apollo 8
——-

Not even. Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and remained for 10 revolutions, a much more technically sophisticated maneuver than a slingshot around the Moon on a “free return” trajectory.

This was the original plan for 8, but smart folks decided “as long as we’re there…”, and wanted to study Mascons. The SPS motor had to work, but it had to work anyway.

Posted by: Ya Think? at February 27, 2026 01:07 PM (lRO1C)

Yeah, that's why I called Artemis 2 a fly-around not lunar orbit mission. Sad that we aren't smart or brave enough to replicate the Apollo 8 mission. I think it is not brave enough. If the untested-in-flight Orion life support system craps out, the managers don't want to waste time dicking around with engine burns to get out of lunar orbit and headed back to Earth.

Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2026 01:21 PM (5rh/l)

363 Years ago, when Iraq and Iran were throwing missiles at each other, the Iranians began to dig. (This habit was passed along to the pali's in Gaza) so rooting them out in airstrikes will be difficult. We'll get some, but not all.
I am thinking it will take a very strong fifth column to make the major muscle moves needed to topple the regime...or at least send them packing.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 27, 2026 01:21 PM (2WIwB)

364 NEW MISSIONS:
Artemis 3 is no longer a moon landing 🤯 It's now a crewed test mission in Low Earth Orbit in 2027 - docking with SpaceX's Starship and/or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to test systems and new spacesuits BEFORE anyone tries to land on the moon.

What a bunch of pussies! What's a little leak in your spacesuit gonna do? Make you cry?

Posted by: MATT DAMOM at February 27, 2026 01:22 PM (UjdFS)

365 nood

hillary

Posted by: banana Dream- THE HORROR! at February 27, 2026 01:23 PM (3uBP9)

366 Somali pirates defrauded the American People for the tune of at LEAST $19 B in Minnesota alone. That would buy a couple of DDGs if not more.

I guess we'll see but I would like to see every R candidate running in '26 respond to any Dems complaining about healthcare with a question as to whether the Dems will deport all the Somalis that made healthcare so expensive.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

367 358 No expert at all, but in our time are not blue water navy surface ships kind of sitting ducks for high end weaponry??
Posted by: tubal at February 27, 2026 01:21 PM (pDt9x)

That’s why they sail under escort. Like cruisers with Aegis missile systems.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 27, 2026 01:23 PM (fYhK6)

368 In explaining that he's not a coward who is afraid of Israel, he says that he asked the US to tell Israel the exact plane he was on, because this Non-Antisemitic Non-Coward really believed that Israel, which is "fighting a war with seven different countries, was plotting to shoot his airplane out of the sky and then claim they thought it was an "Iranian Drone," and he wanted Huckabee to tell them specifically he was on this plane so that Israel could not murder him by anti-aircraft missile and then pretend they didn't know.
++++
That's properly batshit.

There are absolutely circumstances where a country might down a civilian airliner to take out a high-value target and then spin a bunch of Official Lies in the diplomatic dance that followed - but it would have to be a *seriously* high-value target, Like a "maximum value" target.

Tucker is not valuable enough to justify that kind of response. Not to Israel, not to Qatar, not to the US, not to anyone.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 27, 2026 01:23 PM (48xL/)

369 There is a thread subsequent to this one regarding Hillary. I'm sure you understand why I didn't use the common terminology.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2026 01:23 PM (ExV1e)

370 Diogenes, Russia and China have already told the IRGC that they will supply no defensive weapons.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 01:23 PM (+nEug)

371 I guess we'll see but I would like to see every R candidate running in '26 respond to any Dems complaining about healthcare with a question as to whether the Dems will deport all the Somalis that made healthcare so expensive.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

If you have no health for which to care, it’s very cheap.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 27, 2026 01:24 PM (fYhK6)

372 As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself
——-

What? LOL. That isn’t a real statement by Billy Jeff is it? Not possible.
Posted by: Ya Think? at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (5119n)

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

His Mama was a Brothel Madam and member of The Dixie Mafia. Wouldn't surprise me if she sold his ass -- literally -- to faggot scumbag pedos.

Would explain alot ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at February 27, 2026 01:24 PM (GlkTu)

373 141 Author Dan Simmons has died.

well I'm very very sad
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 27, 2026 12:45 PM (j+aD2)

Dammit. Are you serious? I've got so many of his books; digital and hardcover. Probably my favorite author along with Terry Pratchett and now they're both gone.

Posted by: Nelly at February 27, 2026 01:24 PM (7gpcF)

374 I made the spaceniks mad

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2026 01:24 PM (ZxPkt)

375 Crap. Offensive weapons, sorry.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2026 01:24 PM (+nEug)

376 314 This could be an historic time for the Tater. He should volunteer to report from Iran for CNN, and be the next Scud Stud. 🍿🍿
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2026 12:51 PM (4tmpE)

More like Scud Spud.
Posted by: Nazdar at February 27, 2026 01:13 PM (NcvvS)

*stands*

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2026 01:24 PM (bss/y)

377 Posted by: old chick at February 27, 2026 01:19 PM (F3Dlr)

He's earned the nickname from several people by a) being generally a total asshole to everyone up to and including ace (which got him banned), b) being a thinly THINLY veiled anti-Semite, and c) making rape jokes about a regular poster's minor daughter. You should really think long and hard about what making special pleadings for such a person says about you.

Posted by: Seriously, some introspection might do you good at February 27, 2026 01:25 PM (TbWk/)

378 The 1917 revolution in Russia basically took place in one city, as it were, the government was removed, new one installed and all the adherents of the old regime pronounced illegitimate. A bit of civil war and there you go. Since the ayatollahs managed to piss off most of the population, and had to bring in foreign troops to put down revolts, it might work without the civil war.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:25 PM (/M/4v)

379 NASA is just failing slower, putting off the inevitable point where it can no longer keep putting things off.

Posted by: pawn at February 27, 2026 01:25 PM (+rKuc)

380 you are kind of nasty, aren't you
Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:20 PM (/M/4v)

If people are going to slam other commenters, they should use their own nic, not a sock.
It was frowned upon at one time.

and yes, I can be nasty.

Posted by: old chick at February 27, 2026 01:26 PM (F3Dlr)

381 Bill Clinton
@BillClinton
As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals.
_______

This is not the sick burn this pervert thinks it is. It's a self-own. As counter-intuitive as it sounds, people growing up in abusive households are more likely to become abusers themselves. Kids who are sex trafficked often become the most brutal madams and pimps. Etc etc etc.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 27, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

382 The 600 ship Navy would be nice, especially if we could build next gen Iowa class battleships with nuclear power. Just sayin.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 27, 2026 01:26 PM (fYhK6)

383 @BillClinton
As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse...

"I'm a victim too! You can't blame me for anything!"

Posted by: Oddbob at February 27, 2026 01:27 PM (Fs0KI)

384 Every Democrat is praying to one heathen god or another for massive US casualties during the Iran beat-down. Traitors.
Posted by: Gref
-----------
Projected casulties in the Gulf war: 20,000 and 30,000 dead and wounded. This was touted by the media.

Actual hostile deaths : 147

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2026 01:28 PM (XeU6L)

385 If people are going to slam other commenters, they should use their own nic, not a sock.
It was frowned upon at one time.

and yes, I can be nasty.
Posted by: old chick at February 27, 2026 01:26 PM (F3Dlr)

what nics people use , how long they use them is none of your busybody Karen concern, mind your own business and learn not to speak out of both sides of your mouth; some of us have long memories

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2026 01:28 PM (/M/4v)

386 nothing ever happens

but hypothetically, if something did happen, remember this: Trump doesn't do ground troops

so where does that leave the people of Iran?

decapitate IRGC, shut off the oil

tell the government they are holding free and fair elections, right now, if they want to sell oil

the really hardcore mullahs will fight the resulting gov't from the mountains for decades, but enough of the moderates will come back

Posted by: TallDave at February 27, 2026 01:31 PM (xZyKE)

387 You should really think long and hard about what making special pleadings for such a person says about you.
Posted by: Seriously, some introspection might do you good at February 27, 2026 01:25 PM (TbWk/)

I was commenting on you using other commenter's nics as a sock to make your point.

Posted by: old chick at February 27, 2026 01:31 PM (F3Dlr)

388 WAIT

The Artemis program is now an online video game, borrowing heavily from Space Invaders and Pong
Posted by: Don Black
.......

I thought it was going to be a horny Persian smuggler chick living in bubble cities.

Posted by: wth at February 27, 2026 01:32 PM (UjdFS)

389 Jeez, what a fall from grace for Ace. If you want to blindly defend Israel this much, at least do it on X where you can get paid for it.

Posted by: UA113 at February 27, 2026 01:33 PM (cz34i)

390 Wasn't Trump done with Epstein long before he met Melania?

Posted by: Jaimo at February 27, 2026 01:34 PM (BCuCF)

391 This isn't going to get The Donald the Nobel Peace Prize.

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