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The Morning Report — 3/11/26

Good morning kids. We're into the twelfth day of military operations against the Iranian regime and while we seemingly have blown their navy out of the water, the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most strategic waterways in the world is where much of the action is now focused.

A projectile hit a cargo ship Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz, setting the vessel ablaze after the United States targeted Iranian minelaying vessels that could target the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center, run by the British military, said the vessel had been hit just north of Oman in the strait.
It said the crew was evacuating the ship.
Iran did not immediately claim the attack though it has been targeting ships in and around the strait, disrupting a waterway that sees a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded pass through it.

Along with lobbing missiles at neighboring nations, the intentional targeting of foreign flagged ships by Iran is likely an attempt to force external pressure by the rest of the world on President Trump to cease fire and call it quits. It's a race against time for the US and Israel to either destroy and/or degrade Iran's retaliatory/strike capabilities before they have a chance to use them or otherwise exhaust their stocks of these missiles and make them surrender. My concern is the Chi-Coms. They are desperate for and rely heavily on Iranian oil. If the Strait of Hormuz is cut off, how will they react to force it open. And in any case, a collapse of the Mullahocracy means loss of a strategic regional ally, assuming a Trump-approved government takes its place, which might also put a serious crimp in China's access to the oil it needs. All of that in my mind could perhaps push Xi to make a move on Taiwan.

Whatever one thinks about the President's attack on Iran, back here at home this report is a head-scratcher and frankly pissing me the hell off:

In a private meeting, James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, encouraged House Republicans to adjust how they discuss immigration. He suggested shifting away from talk of “mass deportations” and narrowing the administration’s efforts to deport only confirmed dangerous criminals.This guidance arises from worries that Democrats are effectively painting Trump’s immigration approach as excessively sweeping, despite President Donald J. Trump campaigning on an ambiguous promise to deport all illegal aliens. Blair reportedly shared these thoughts in a policy discussion at the yearly House Republican retreat held in Doral, Florida. . . The shift is drawing sharp criticism from many in the President’s MAGA base, some of whom were already unhappy with the administration’s embrace of neoconservative foreign policy by launching the ongoing war in Iran. “I voted for no new wars & mass deportations. Why are we stopping the mass deportations and starting a new war?” asked Caroline Sunshine, who acted as deputy communications director for the Trump 2024 campaign.

Regarding the attack on Iran, lest we forget that Iran via its terror proxies and its own capabilities has spilled rivers of blood and quite a bit of it American since Jimmy Carter helped the current regime take over 47 years ago, and since then they have been hell bent on bringing about armageddon — primarily via the acquisition and use of nuclear weapons — as the precursor for the arrival of the 12th Imam to usher in the internal age of Islam ruling the world.

"Death to America" is not merely a sweet little nothing you whisper in a Vassar co-ed's ear to get her to hop into the sack with you (Of course failing that, there's always rape in the name of decolonization!) This has been Iran's national motto and battle cry since 1979. President Trump is merely the first president in all that time to take them at their word and is doing what he can and must to prevent that from happening, unlike any of his predecessors in all that time, one in particular who actually shared that view. Of course I mean Barack Hussein Obama who did more to aid and abet the Iranian nuclear weapons program by giving them political/diplomatic cover/legitimacy and shoveling billions of dollars at them. Obama was the black Tucker Carlson of the Rosenbergs.

But I digress. Wow did I digress! As far as illegal aliens are concerned. Sorry, but all of them regardless of criminal record or lack thereof are a danger and threat to our safety, security and to societal cohesion in general.

To James Blair, I say, justify to me how it is in the best interest of this nation to allow anyone who came here illegally to remain here and benefit — and that is the perfect word to use — from being here at the cost to our fellow citizens, monetarily and otherwise. Awarding and encouraging criminal behavior is antithetical to the founding of this nation and to its moral and ethical underpinnings that are the basis or are supposed to be the basis of our society and government.

Sorry, this is an absolute non-starter for me. Every one of the millions, perhaps 44 million or more by now, foreigners here on our soil without our approval and permission must be removed. No ifs ands or buts. With that in mind, I give you this, your emetic of the day:

Rachel Zegler, the woke actress who played the woke Hispanic Snow White for the 2025 live action Disney movie recently addressed the tremendous backlash she received for her performance in the film, finally concluding with this sentiment: “I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.”
Oh, you don’t say. . .
. . . So Zegler doesn’t want to assimilate because she comes first—like every other foreigner living off the comforts and privileges America affords while actively working to destroy it.

And Zegler I am assuming is a legal immigrant! To me this is someone defecating on the grave of my dear mother of blessed memory, who survived Mauthausen, forced labor brigades and a death march and waiting for four years to arrive here and kissed the ground when she stepped on American soil. She refused to teach me her native tongue, Hungarian, because of what they did to her and her family in aiding and abetting the Nazis in virtually wiping out the second largest Jewish population in Europe. Fuck you, and vayr gehargit, Rachel Zegler.

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AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!

Iran did not immediately claim the attack though it has been targeting ships in and around the strait, disrupting a waterway that sees a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded pass through it.
British military says a cargo ship is ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile
The U.S. military has experienced casualties and incurred significant costs.
Pentagon Confirms 140 U.S. Military Casualties in Iran War.
Both Caine and Hegseth suggested the U.S. would probably help oil vessels safely through the Strait of Hormuz if the need arose.
‘This Is Not 2003’: Hegseth Promises Iran War Will Not Turn Into Nation-Building
CENTCOM already said that the military has struck 5,000 targets and damaged or destroyed over 50 ships.
Hegseth: Today Will be ‘Our Most Intense Day of Strikes Inside Iran’
Shipping companies have been asking for protection almost every day since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran more than a week ago.
Trump says US destroyed 10 'inactive' Iranian mine-laying ships in Strait of Hormuz, 'more to follow'
The IDF strikes regime airfields, deepens ‘aerial superiority over Iranian skies.’
Op Epic Fury Updates: Iran’s Top Regime Operative Threatens to ‘Eliminate’ Trump
Seven U.S. troops have tragically died in Iranian regime counterstrikes since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, and the president paid his respects to the remains of six of them last week at Dover. Subsequently, Trump also spoke to the press on Monday and emphasized that parents of the service members who gave the last full measure of devotion want the president to finish off the task that their loved ones offered their lives to achieve. This must be no Vietnam War, no waste of the lives of our most courageous and honorable young men and women.
Fallen Troops’ Families Told Trump ‘Finish the Job’ on Iran
Allowing zero refugees to resettle on American soil should be the absolute minimum requirement for any U.S. military action in the Middle East.
No Matter How The Iran War Ends, We Absolutely Cannot Take Any Refugees
The Space Force that Democrats sneered at is now saving American lives and protecting our allies from hostile missile fire.
Space Force Proves Its Worth as Trump’s Vision Pays Off During Epic Fury, Midnight Hammer
. . .he ugly truth about the Islamic terrorist campaign against America and its alliance with the Marxist Left —The Freedom Center’s new pamphlet reveals the hidden history of Iran’s 47-year war against America.
Why We’re At War With Iran

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The only thing that matters to them is winning elections.
Dems Place Their Bets Against The U.S.
Lefty advocates for women in sports like Megan Rapinoe, Jemele Hill and Keith Olbermann — who normally race toward open microphones to fulminate about Trump, trans kids, ICE and pay equity — are remarkably quiet over the plight of the Iranian women’s soccer team. These brave footballers held their ground at an Asian Cup match in Brisbane last week, refusing to sing the anthem of the brutal Islamic Republic, fresh off slaughtering tens of thousands of heroic protesters demonstrating against the despotic regime.
Why isn’t motormouth Megan Rapinoe using her megaphone for Iran’s female soccer team?

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
This picture, more than any other image I've ever seen, encapsulates the ideology of modern Leftism.
This Insane Moment Belongs In A Dystopian Novel
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The potential sea-change in White House and GOP strategy on immigration could alienate much of the MAGA movement.
White House Abandons ‘Mass Deportations’ Campaign Pledge, Demands GOP Congress Does Same.
Yeah, her and every other foreigner.
Colombian actress talks her ‘refusal’ to ‘assimilate’ to American values and culture
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
More than seven million borrowers will need to transition to new repayment plans.
Court Halts Biden-Era Student Loan Repayment Plan.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on technological competition, the politics of AI, and how a poor state became a model for American growth
The State That Says Yes
Due to sky-high taxation and all-around government incompetence, California has shifted from the Gold Rush state to the Outrush state.
Failifornia
Betsy McCaughey: It’s not just New York and California: All across the nation, blue states are committing political and economic suicide by targeting millionaires with high taxes. Who will suffer most from this ideologically driven push to punish the wealthy? Wage workers and the poor.
Blue states are committing tax suicide — their mania is contagious
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"A lot of people, after October 7, started learning about Islam"
Muslim Police ‘Liaison’ Who Defended Hamas Supporters Busted for 3 Sexual Assaults
“On Saturday,” Mamdani began, “a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion, where I live with my wife Rama. Neither of us were home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy, entitled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.” To lead off with this is to try to give the impression, as the establishment media did, that the “vile” protesters who opposed the “Islamic Takeover of New York City” were behind the bombing.
After ISIS Bombing in New York, Mamdani Condemns Islamic Terrorism — Nah, Just Kidding
Who knew the Islamic rape enthusiasts would rape me too?
Hamas Rape Enthusiasts at College Encampment Were Raping Each Other

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The incident highlights ongoing issues with free speech on social media platforms, and the influence of foreign censorship laws on American citizens, including elected officials.
Musk’s X Censors GOP Congressman for Anti-Islam Tweet.
“I think this has been another real significant pain point and frustration in most Americans’ lives. You call up a company, try to resolve an issue, [and] you end up with a call center outside of the U.S., there’s language, there’s communication barriers, it’s just difficult to resolve your problem,” Carr said.
Exclusive–Brendan Carr: FCC Is Cracking Down on Overseas Call Center Scams, Requiring Standard English Proficiency, Reducing Robocalls

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Congress says the App Store Accountability Act will protect children. In reality, it risks creating a massive digital surveillance system while undermining privacy and free speech.
The App Store Accountability Act Is a Privacy Nightmare Disguised as Child Protection
Establishment elites have begun seeding the narrative that Vice President JD Vance and the GOP are locked in an internecine battle over artificial intelligence, one that could derail Vance’s ascent as the heir apparent to carry President Donald Trump’s MAGA mantle forward.
CODE RED: Why JD Vance’s Framing of AI Will Define the Future of Global Politics
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“This is going to hurt Gov. Newsom who has had a lot of success chasing out hundreds to thousands of California businesses or subsidiaries”
Yamaha Leaving California for Greener Pastures in Georgia
Rising costs for fertilizers and diesel, potential farm bankruptcies, and increased consumer prices for food.
American Farmers Struggle as Iran War Sparks Fertilizer Crisis, Surge in Fuel Costs.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
So much for ACAB.
‘No Kings’ Sued After ‘Armed Volunteer’ Killed Bystander
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
President Jim Davis’ decision to consolidate four “studies” departments is about more than just fiscal prudence.
UT Austin Strikes a Blow to Critical Theory
Mohamed Abdou’s 'Death to the Akademy' discussion at Union Theological Seminary will offer 'strategies for student organizers who seek to confront the liberal Akademy'
'Decolonial Organizing Lessons from Gaza's Warrior Mujahideen': Union Theological Seminary, A Columbia Affiliate, To Host Talk From 'Activist-Scholar' Banned By Columbia for Endorsing Hamas
POLITICS
Toth, who defeated Crenshaw Tuesday in the Republican primary for Crenshaw’s House seat, is endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is his bid to defeat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the primary runoff to represent the Lone Star State in the United States Senate.
Exclusive – Steve Toth Endorses Ken Paxton for Senate over John Cornyn
The Evangelical Immigration Table has received millions in funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundations via the National Immigration Forum to advance open borders and pro-mass immigration policies among evangelical leaders.
Paxton Rival John Cornyn Launches ‘Faith Advisory Council’ Helmed by Soros-Linked Pro-Amnesty Pastors.
Calling Texas’ Democrat senatorial candidate James Talarico, even derisively, a “bible-banger” is a disservice to bible-bangers.
Talarico, With His Left Hand on the Bible
California’s ruling machine survives by repackaging the same failed policies with new faces—and Matt Mahan may be the latest “moderate” mask for the state’s tax-and-spend status quo.
California’s Future: Matt Mahan, the Bogus Conservative Whisperer
Dem seat flips Republican.
Mohammed Loses Election for Dems in Blue Virginia
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The apparent lack of broad European support for the U.S. strikes on Iran signals the continent could be approaching a turning point by deciding whether it will maintain economic dependence on Washington or Beijing — or take matters into its own hands.
Europe Leaving America In Dust After Years Of Being Beholden To China
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The tracking system is perhaps the most revealing part of the whole thing, because it shows how the state wants this market treated.Georgia would require retailers to enter purchaser information into a real-time electronic logging system, complete with names, addresses, identification details, product information, and timestamps, and law enforcement would have direct access to the data.
Georgia’s Kratom Crackdown Runs Against RFK’s Health Vision, Creates Govt Database of Buyers.
Oz now oversees the agency responsible for administering federal health programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act marketplace. During remarks on the problem, Oz stated that fraudulent enrollments and unauthorized changes to insurance policies resulted in significant financial losses for the federal government. Oz also warned that the system's structure made it easier for dishonest brokers to exploit weaknesses in the enrollment process. Federal officials have begun tightening verification requirements to prevent additional abuse.
Dr. Mehmet Oz Says Millions Lost to Obamacare Fraud. What Else Were We Told Wrong?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The spacecraft weighs a bit over 1,300 pounds, which places it among the larger objects expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere in an uncontrolled descent. Most of the structure will burn up during reentry, although some components could survive the intense heat and fall to the surface. NASA engineers believe the risk of injury remains extremely low, though the spacecraft's exact landing can't be predicted with precision.
A 1,300-Pound NASA Satellite Is Falling Back to Earth. What Could Go Wrong?
I want to highlight two numbers — 19 and 39 — in order to illustrate how SpaceX does things versus NASA. Not only has SpaceX already completed eleven test flights of Starship/Superheavy, it has tested or flown 19 and 39 prototypes of each, in one manner or another. The company has a very rich history of hardware and testing as it ramps up towards operational flights. This practically guarantees that those operational flights will not only occur relatively soon, they will be relatively safe and robust.
SpaceX now targeting early April for next Starship/Superheavy test flight
I have searched the New Horizons’ press release archive, and as far as I can tell, this sequence of images and the terrain it shows was never highlighted publicly by the science team.
Pluto’s cratered glacial terrain
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Podcaster laments the good the first black president could have done for U.S.
Adam Carolla on Obama: ‘All He Does Is Race Hustle’
Toto Too: Director's tart response to Rosanna Arquette means more than media bickering
Quentin Tarantino Did What Foster, Scorsese and More Refused
HITHER & YON
Fischer takes full advantage of this very complete record, which made it possible for him to tell the story of almost every participant, in a human and very personal way. Thus, as you read his book it actually feels like you are on our modern social media, where everyone takes out a smart phone to record what’s happening, thus providing us all with many different perspectives of the same event. Only here those perspectives come from the written word, penned with thoughtful attention and a passionate dedication to telling the truth, as each person saw it.
Who fired “the shot heard round the world?” (Bobby Thomson for $500, Alex- jjs)
No one should be laid to rest without relatives, but especially our veterans.
Hundreds Attend Funeral of Tennessee Navy Veteran Who Passed With No Living Relatives

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1 Good morning all. Early MR as I am off to hospital for yet another, bimonthly MRI

Later!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 11, 2026 06:46 AM (x0n13)

2 First!

Posted by: Ironwood at March 11, 2026 06:49 AM (ob2d4)

3 Good luck on your MRI.

Posted by: Ironwood at March 11, 2026 06:51 AM (ob2d4)

4 The morning report shart

Iran hitting boats in the Strait.

Uh oh!

Posted by: GigantorX at March 11, 2026 06:52 AM (pFl8W)

5 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at March 11, 2026 06:53 AM (fcoLq)

6 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 11, 2026 06:56 AM (NcvvS)

7 Whiskey Wednesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 06:56 AM (gbOdA)

8 Don't let up until you are through.

Posted by: ZZ Top at March 11, 2026 06:56 AM (ehY6c)

9 Top ten! Morning, horde.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 11, 2026 06:58 AM (BpO1e)

10 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at March 11, 2026 07:02 AM (RiKhU)

11 justify to me how it is in the best interest of this nation to allow anyone who came here illegally to remain here and benefit

Bonus points if he can justify it to the people who came here legally and spent a considerable amount of money to follow the rules.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 11, 2026 07:04 AM (BpO1e)

12 Reports like the one from Blair just make me fight harder. These people are akin to monkeys throwing shit and trying to make it stick.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 07:04 AM (+nEug)

13 Good morning horde

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 11, 2026 07:06 AM (DoBxX)

14 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 07:08 AM (jtM2q)

15 censored a post by U.S. Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) in Europe on behalf of the European Union (EU),

1. He's an American.
2. He's posting on a site based in America.
3. The laws of lesser countries should not be enforced against us.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 11, 2026 07:11 AM (BpO1e)

16 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2026 07:13 AM (DFKL9)

17 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 07:14 AM (ExV1e)

18 Europe Leaving America In Dust After Years Of Being Beholden To China

What the heck does that mean? Leaving someone or something in the dust means you're forging ahead and surpassing them. Europe is not surpassing us in any manner. They are falling behind and will soon be a backwater in either a middle eastern state, or a minor province of China.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 11, 2026 07:14 AM (1Ff7Z)

19 Latest from Axios ...

White House tells GOP to stop talking about mass deportations.

Sigh.

Posted by: GigantorX at March 11, 2026 07:15 AM (yxMHJ)

20 OrangeEnt fractured fairy tales.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 07:16 AM (+nEug)

21 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 11, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

22 I've been saying since Trump was elected that the midterms don't matter.

It won't stop anyone here from obsessing over them daily like a teen girl with her copy of Tiger Beat - but they don't matter. If the GOP wins, they'll keep right on obstructing Trump at every turn and forcing ugly confrontations about vetos and things. He'll have to keep on governing by executive order, as he is right now.

If the Democrats win, they'll keep right on obstructing Trump at every turn and forcing ugly confrontations about impeachment and things. They won't have the votes for it. He'll have to keep on governing by executive order, as he is right now.

Congress is a meaningless institution as long as he's President.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 07:17 AM (BI5O2)

23 OrangeEnt fractured fairy tales.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 07:16 AM (+nEug)

They are deluded, Ben Had.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 11, 2026 07:17 AM (1Ff7Z)

24 NaCly, dearest, I try to do that everyday.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 07:19 AM (+nEug)

25 When you have to deport, deport. Don't talk.

Posted by: The Collected Sayings of Tuco at March 11, 2026 07:19 AM (wVcYX)

26 As far as the EU is concerned, the culture we got from their forebears is instructive:

Thucydides: The Melian Dialogue (416 B.C.) has the core of the dialog as "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must".

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 11, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

27 >>>"Death to America" is not merely a sweet little nothing you whisper in a Vassar co-ed's ear to get her to hop into the sack with you

>I prefer a more direct approach; "Let's make this your best vacation ever. I'll buy breakfast."

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 11, 2026 07:24 AM (M9gjJ)

28 Apparently, selling half a churro for $7.50 allows Disney to net more than Disney+

Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2026 07:24 AM (7N3EA)

29 Sheep, wolves and sheepdogs

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 07:25 AM (+nEug)

30 PSA: There are 289 days till Christmas.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2026 07:25 AM (XV/Pl)

31 Hell, if anything, a Dem Congress probably works in Trump's favor a little bit. It doesn't make a dime's worth of difference in terms of moving his agenda - they won't block it any more than the GOP does, because that's not possible - and at least then his voters will have someone to blame besides his own "Party."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 07:25 AM (BI5O2)

32 OrangeEnt

Plotting Wealth per capita vs energy use shows there are absolutely no low energy use nations that are wealthy.

The EU greens have unilaterally moved the EU in the direction of pre-industrial age existence.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 11, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

33 Thank you JJS! Best wishes to your wife in her medical adventures today (and everyday).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 07:27 AM (3unPv)

34 The potential sea-change in White House and GOP strategy on immigration could alienate much of the MAGA movement.
White House Abandons ‘Mass Deportations’ Campaign Pledge, Demands GOP Congress Does Same.

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Personally, this is deeply disappointing. This is the cornerstone of Trump's reelection more than any other. By a wide margin, polling has shown Americans want all illegals sent home, not just the violent ones. We just had a poll less than a week ago reiterating the same thing. Yes, it's very deeply disappointing. What's the point of even voting...

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 07:27 AM (qBdHI)

35 You get up every morning from alarm clock's warning,
Then smile and be happy for your day
Strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere,
I love to work at MAGA all day.

And we've been takin' care of business, every day
Takin' care of business, every way
We've been takin' care of business, it's all mine
Takin' care of business and working overtime

Work out! [guitar solo]

Posted by: BTO's Greatest Hits at March 11, 2026 07:27 AM (wVcYX)

36 And good luck in your MRI today!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 07:28 AM (3unPv)

37 Europe Leaving America In Dust After Years Of Being Beholden To China

What the heck does that mean? Leaving someone or something in the dust means you're forging ahead and surpassing them. Europe is not surpassing us in any manner. They are falling behind and will soon be a backwater in either a middle eastern state, or a minor province of China.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 11, 2026 07:14 AM (1Ff7Z)

A better title would have been "Europe, increasingly enamored with totalitarian policies, seeks to shift ties from the US to China in an effort to find someone to pay for their lifestyle."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

38 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Iran's government is cutting their own economic throat shutting the Strait of Hormuz. And making permanent enemies of other Persian Gulf exporters. Bonus points for hurting their big sponsor China while helping Russia.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 11, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

39 The EU greens have unilaterally moved the EU in the direction of pre-industrial age existence.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 11, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

Just making the place more like home for the third world invaders.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 11, 2026 07:29 AM (1Ff7Z)

40 Happy Birthday JJ!

Posted by: blaster at March 11, 2026 07:29 AM (NlEaG)

41 The Age of Man is coming to a close, flowers for its grave. The hungered beast is loose to feed on the rotted corpse.

Posted by: Yeets at March 11, 2026 07:30 AM (ehY6c)

42 Latest from Axios ...

White House tells GOP to stop talking about mass deportations.

Sigh.
Posted by: GigantorX at March 11, 2026 07:15 AM (yxMHJ)

There are three points which are important to remember at times like these:

- The media lies about everything.
- The 'conservative' media is media first, conservative second.
- There is a concerted effort by the uniparty and it's minion to cripple Trump for the remainder of his term.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

43 J.J. - praying your MRI goes well.

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at March 11, 2026 07:31 AM (RiKhU)

44 I hope JJ studied for his MRI test. Get a passing score, B+ even!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 11, 2026 07:31 AM (wVcYX)

45 Timothy Valentin, “Hero” Police Officer on Hakeem Jeffries’ Jan. 6 Memorial Plaque INDICTED on 9 Felony Counts Including RAPE — Allegedly Drugged and Assaulted Nearly a Dozen Women

Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2026 07:33 AM (7N3EA)

46 Lady in Black, take that report for the garbage it is. We will continue to be inundated with doom and gloom but it is Axios that is putting this out.
Reading national media this morning you would be told that Iran is winning this war

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 07:34 AM (+nEug)

47 Any moron reports from yesterday's tornados?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 11, 2026 07:35 AM (XvL8K)

48 Bless your mother, JJ! Every time I hear her story, I get misty

Oh, and Happy Birthday

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 07:35 AM (xT8gx)

49 If Congress can’t pass a bill that 80% of the people agree with, what does that say about Congress?
Clearly, they don’t represent the people in their district.

Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2026 07:35 AM (7N3EA)

50 Amazingly, the hardcover edition of Hackett's book is $42 at Amazon, versus $15.60 for the paperback and $10 for the Kindle edition.

No wonder fewer hardcover books are bought!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 07:35 AM (0OIwA)

51 by Iran is likely an attempt to force external pressure by the rest of the world on President Trump to cease fire and call it quits

Or, to piss them off enough to bring about the Armageddon you mention. That is a very likely motivation for the true believers.

Posted by: GWB at March 11, 2026 07:37 AM (2EYEO)

52 The strategy they are using has been obvious for decades. It matters little what laws are passed, particularly what with corrupt judicial rulings, and an unwillingness to enforce our laws. The highest court held that citizen taxpayers are on the hook financially for education of illegal aliens in public schools. An absurd an offensive notion, but over the years they have made citizenship a second class designation.

Offshoring whole swaths of industry and inshoring an army of low paid foreign nationals. Wages stagnant since the 1970s. And financial jiggery-pokery that allows for paying the able bodied not to work, and unscrupulous sorts to make serious bank importing more illegals by the millions. They get rich while destroying the country. It’s all really quite elegant from a certain perspective , and everything becomes moot, regardless of black letter federal law, the wishes of the public, or anything else.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 07:37 AM (kMjfk)

53 I support Trump's actions against Iran. I also support getting them over with in, say, no more than a month from now. Finish it up by early April at the latest (how much more stuff will there be to blow up by then?)... then focus like a laser beam for the rest of the year on domestic stuff... like deportations and the 250 and the economy and the midterms

I hope James Blair does not represent Trump's views (nor those of the Mullins feller that's taking over at DHS)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 07:39 AM (xT8gx)

54 CENTCOM video posted on X yesterday afternoon shows we got one of their mine-laying mini-subs that I mentioned in one of the morning threads yesterday.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 07:40 AM (Y1sOo)

55 “I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.”
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Zegler is a gilgul:

https://tinyurl.com/4dec4ms5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 07:40 AM (1o8D5)

56 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Good luck and God bless with the test JJ

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 07:41 AM (qBBPl)

57 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

For those morons not on the ONT grammie's son let us know surgery went well and she is now on a long road to recovery. b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 07:42 AM (RIvkX)

58 Timothy Valentin, “Hero” Police Officer on Hakeem Jeffries’ Jan. 6 Memorial Plaque INDICTED on 9 Felony Counts Including RAPE — Allegedly Drugged and Assaulted Nearly a Dozen Women
Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2026 07:33 AM (7N3EA)

We don't see a problem with this. -- Congress

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

59 The Trump administration announced an Indian conglomerate was financing the construction of a brand new oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas. The crazy thing is that the administration says this is America's first new refinery in fifty years. Fifty!

https://tinyurl.com/24s97348

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 07:43 AM (45dED)

60 For an interesting take on the US / IAF target list, the ISW has a Middle East update with a list of Iranian targets in various categories.

From that list, we are hitting the security forces very hard. Looks like that is the number 2 priority, after the missile launcher hunt.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 11, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

61 Timothy Valentin, “Hero” Police Officer on Hakeem Jeffries’ Jan. 6 Memorial Plaque INDICTED on 9 Felony Counts Including RAPE — Allegedly Drugged and Assaulted Nearly a Dozen Women

Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2026 07:33 AM (7N3EA)
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We don't see a problem with this. -- Congress

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 07:43 AM (ExV1e)
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A plaque upon their houses!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 07:44 AM (1o8D5)

62 > White House tells GOP to stop talking about mass deportations.
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No talk. Just deport.

Why jawbone about every illegal that's been run down and set for deportation? All that does is open the door for criticism. Bad press. Trump hates bad press.

Just do the job. Quit craving the limelight.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 07:44 AM (jtM2q)

63 Dr. Jack Graham, pastor Max Lucado, and Dr. Gus Reyes—all members of the Cornyn campaign’s Faith Advisory Council—are affiliated with EIT. Both Graham and Lucado are also signatories to the group’s Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform, which calls for the adoption of family unification (chain migration) policies and the establishment of a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

Where are the Christian Organizations that want a path to freedom for tax cheats, or Medicare/Medicaid fraud?
Why do these Christians need millions of semi-slave, non-conforming, non-assimilated 3rd Worlders to become legal, voting, benefit owning citizens?

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

64 Great news about Grammie! I'm glad they were actually able to do the surgery and that it's over. Prayers for a safe and speedy recovery.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 07:44 AM (qBdHI)

65 Great news about Grammie! Thanks SF

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 07:44 AM (xT8gx)

66 Amazingly, the hardcover edition of Hackett's book is $42 at Amazon, versus $15.60 for the paperback and $10 for the Kindle edition.
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And Free .pdf if you know where to look.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 07:45 AM (kMjfk)

67 59 The Trump administration announced an Indian conglomerate was financing the construction of a brand new oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas. The crazy thing is that the administration says this is America's first new refinery in fifty years. Fifty!

https://tinyurl.com/24s97348
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 07:43 AM (45dED)

The last new refinery was built in Louisiana when I was a senior in HS.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

68 >>> Amazingly, the hardcover edition of Hackett's book is $42 at Amazon, versus $15.60 for the paperback and $10 for the Kindle edition.

No wonder fewer hardcover books are bought!

Posted by: Huck Follywood

>Precisely. This is why I stopped buying hardcover books. I have shelves and shelves and boxes of books for the silverfish. I'm done buying hardcover.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 11, 2026 07:46 AM (M9gjJ)

69 Have a great day, everyone. Got lots to do.

May you all be thriving and soaking up sun for Vitamin D production.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 11, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

70 Dr. Jack Graham, pastor Max Lucado, and Dr. Gus Reyes—all members of the Cornyn campaign’s Faith Advisory Council—are affiliated with EIT. Both Graham and Lucado are also signatories to the group’s Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform, which calls for the adoption of family unification (chain migration) policies and the establishment of a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

Where are the Christian Organizations that want a path to freedom for tax cheats, or Medicare/Medicaid fraud?
Why do these Christians need millions of semi-slave, non-conforming, non-assimilated 3rd Worlders to become legal, voting, benefit owning citizens?
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

I'm disappointed in Lucado as I'd always thought of him as an apologist with the chops. Perhaps he's not the clear thinker I thought he was... Graham is a mega-church pastor so I don't expect much from that direction and I've never heard of the other guy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 07:47 AM (xT8gx)

71 May you all be thriving and soaking up sun for Vitamin D production.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 11, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)
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My plan in about 20 minutes. Super sunny an reasonable today in Jerusalem.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 07:47 AM (1o8D5)

72 Europe Leaving America In Dust After Years Of Being Beholden To China
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Au revoir cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

73 I don't think there is any 5D chess here wrt the silencing of "mass deportation" talk.

It tracks with Mark Wayne RHINO being installed as DHS chief. The guy is a loser.

But leading up to the midterms this will begin the shifting of goal posts.

"We never meant "deport them all!"

Or maybe I'm being a silly Susan.

Posted by: GigantorX at March 11, 2026 07:48 AM (yxMHJ)

74 ...the establishment of a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

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We have a pathway! It's called apply in your country and legally go through the process like all those that came before you. I'm sick and tired hearing the phrase "pathway to citizenship." We already have one. I'm sick of hearing about "immigration reform." We need the laws we already have enforced!

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 07:48 AM (qBdHI)

75 For those morons not on the ONT grammie's son let us know surgery went well and she is now on a long road to recovery. b"h
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 07:42 AM (RIvkX)
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Thank you for that very welcome news! Hi grammie! Get well!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 07:49 AM (45dED)

76 @" WH says"is always an AXIOS, Politico, WSJ, NYT, drive by media attempt to shape the narrative. It is never persuasive to claim "unnamed sources say" and then whatever I think is a good thing follows. This is the talking point the republicans want to get out there because they are limp and have NO intention of following through on laws that are currently on the books. They are not going to support getting rid of the immigration FUBAR that has been in place all of my 52 years because they THRIVE on the resulting grifting opportunity

Posted by: paulnjax at March 11, 2026 07:49 AM (PPnyU)

77 Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 07:37 AM (kMjfk)

All very succinct and accurate, but you left out one thing - a credulous population in deep denial, who refuse to accept that everything is moot, and keep on cheerleading for their own victimization by whichever gangster faction their dad supported.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 07:50 AM (BI5O2)

78 Where are the Christian Organizations that want a path to freedom for tax cheats, or Medicare/Medicaid fraud?
Why do these Christians need millions of semi-slave, non-conforming, non-assimilated 3rd Worlders to become legal, voting, benefit owning citizens?
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Laziness and social virtue signalling. Doing missionary work to improve other nations can be risky. But bringing in your own pets to this country means that the costs (no risk to your hide) can be put on taxpayers while you claim all the credit for social virtue.

Same as the ignorant and stupid Hate has No Home Here rhetoric.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 07:51 AM (E4rtv)

79 Not that it matters, but Rs finally won a special local election...and it happened here in NoVa. It only took the Ds nominating an absolute hater of all but Arab Muslims (I'd list his "ists" from his own tweets, but I'd break the character limit) and a voter turnout where 1600 votes won...but it was a +40D area.

It helped Rs that when he wouldn't drop (despite every D calling him to do so), Ds ran a write in campaign with the primary D loser with one week left to split the vote...if those folks had voted D, the awful D would have won.

So, now Rs have actually, officially flipped a seat, even it was all local issues...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 07:54 AM (tOcjL)

80 Trump says US destroyed 10 'inactive' Iranian mine-laying ships in Strait of Hormuz, 'more to follow'

Its interesting to see what happens when the US doesn't invite in Europeans and this becomes a straight up Force against Force.

Iran went into Total War mode where they don't care about collateral damage or harm to non participants. They go by the theory that War is supposed to be Hell and so awful that everyone wants to end it.

The problem for the US is that we are still stuck in the Win Hearts & Minds™ thinking yet doing the targeting of things with a more narrow yet intense ROE.

I wonder how Patton would have handled it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 07:55 AM (a4flb)

81 Governor Gavin Newsom
@CAgovernor
Americans will pay $1.5 BILLION MORE at the gas pump just this week because of Donald Trump's war with Iran.

California will continue using the tools we've spent years developing to help fight price spikes and lessen the blow from Trump's recklessness.

==

OMG, how he didn't get struck on the spot with lightening after saying this is beyond me.

This is quite rich coming from Mr. Highest Gas Prices in the Country.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

82 Dearest Eurofagonia: eat at Dicks

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 11, 2026 07:56 AM (LOZbR)

83 Distant explosions. Jerusalem not alerted.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 07:57 AM (1o8D5)

84 The loud drunk at the end of the bar is Scarbourgh.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at March 11, 2026 07:58 AM (jZ3ZM)

85 For what it's worth, Zegler was born in Hackensack, NJ, and is an American citizen. Don't know why she's blathering about "assimilating".

Posted by: Simon Jesster at March 11, 2026 07:58 AM (YqF8J)

86 An NBA player named Bam Adebayo scored 83 points in a game last night. Only Wilt Chamberlin has scored more in a single game when he scored 100 (way back in 1961 IIRC)... The ironic thing about this is that Adebayo is not considered a prolific scorer.

This is your roundball trivia for the day...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 07:58 AM (xT8gx)

87 Also, at least where I live, gas is still 50 cents a gallon less than under the Bribem Criminal Regime

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 11, 2026 07:59 AM (LOZbR)

88 73 I don't think there is any 5D chess here wrt the silencing of "mass deportation" talk.

It tracks with Mark Wayne RHINO being installed as DHS chief. The guy is a loser.

Posted by: GigantorX
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Never pay attention to what this administration says, it is what they do that matters. If the deportations slow, then there is a problem, if not, then ignore whatever is said.

Basically, this administration being under 24/7 attack does not highlight whatever its plans are, you have to wait until things happen (or not). And this administration is tackling more issues than any GOP administration has at least since Coolidge. Foreign affairs to prevent the Chicoms from dominating the world, taking out terrorists and drug dealers killing our people, trying to make energy cheap and available, fixing our 70 year degradation of our industrial capacity, keeping our kids from being neutered, trying to fix our elections, highlighting the illegalities of our nat sec IC under Obama and Biden, getting rid of DIE in schools and industry, etc. etc.

Tactics on issues demands rhetorical flexibility and not perfection.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 07:59 AM (E4rtv)

89 Great news Grammie. Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need in the midweek.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 07:59 AM (qBBPl)

90 The Free Press says there is controversy about whether it is even technically possible to stop phones, help agents, or TV's from recording citizens and selling their conversations as data.

Nevertheless, this short video has created a lot of excitement.

https://tinyurl.com/2t8cpfxc

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 08:00 AM (2Ywua)

91 A thousand will fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes will thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalm 91

Posted by: kingsman at March 11, 2026 08:00 AM (ehY6c)

92 86 An NBA player named Bam Adebayo scored 83 points in a game last night. Only Wilt Chamberlin has scored more in a single game when he scored 100 (way back in 1961 IIRC)... The ironic thing about this is that Adebayo is not considered a prolific scorer.

This is your roundball trivia for the day...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 07:58 AM (xT8gx)

The Washington Wizards are not a real basketball team this year...150 pts to the opponents without OT is a reflection of how bad they are vs maybe how great Adebayo is. Now, to be fair, as a D league team, Washington had no one who could cover him, so most of the game was toss him the ball after crossing half court and watch him score.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 08:01 AM (tOcjL)

93 I'm not upset about the White House urging messaging on deporting criminal illegals rather than mass deportations before the midterms. Right now, Trump is not polling well on the issue of deportations whether we like it or not which is not surprising given the left and the media have been demonizing and lying about Trump for a year on the issue. Make Democrats defend deporting criminal illegals, something that does have broad support.

The White House also confirmed yesterday there is no change in Trump's deportation plans. It's a messaging issue. If the actual plan changes then I'll be angry but this isn't that.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 11, 2026 08:01 AM (viF8m)

94 Gavin Greasy is getting slaughtered on that tweet.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

95 OMG, how he didn't get struck on the spot with lightening after saying this is beyond me.

This is quite rich coming from Mr. Highest Gas Prices in the Country.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)
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Is there anyone alive in California who doesn't howl with laughter at this ridiculous comment from Newscum?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 08:01 AM (2Ywua)

96 85 For what it's worth, Zegler was born in Hackensack, NJ, and is an American citizen. Don't know why she's blathering about "assimilating".
Posted by: Simon Jesster
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Social virtue signalling from a failed actress that she is still alive and wanting a job. She might do okay on the dying live theater circuit but her stupidity pretty much torpedoed a movie career and she is aging out of any prime breakout roles anyway in that dying industry. Best bet is to find some idiotic Netflix series so she can get paid for mouthing platitudes that our gentry class likes.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:02 AM (E4rtv)

97 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)

98 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (MwdeY)

99 33 Thank you JJS! Best wishes to your wife in her medical adventures today (and everyday).
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 07:27 AM (3unPv)

WEll, today it's my medical misadventures and MRI. Wife is doing better but still a bit of a struggle.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (x0n13)

100 I'm sure the Dems will be chirping about finishing first in the MTG seat jungle primary. Short lived because the total of the next four finishers, all Republicans, will crush them in the runoff

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (qBBPl)

101 For what it's worth, Zegler was born in Hackensack, NJ, and is an American citizen. Don't know why she's blathering about "assimilating".
Posted by: Simon Jesster at March 11, 2026 07:58 AM (YqF8J)

There are some indications that she's both not very bright and entirely bought in to leftist ideas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

102 To James Blair, I say, justify to me how it is in the best interest of this nation to allow anyone who came here illegally to remain here and benefit — and that is the perfect word to use — from being here at the cost to our fellow citizens, monetarily and otherwise.

I support DEI!

Deport
Every
Illegal

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)

103 94 Gavin Greasy is getting slaughtered on that tweet.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Theater kid that has never been held accountable by the media and society for anything he has done. Just an older version of Talarico in TX bloviating and signalling like mad while totally incapable of self reflection.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (E4rtv)

104
WEll, today it's my medical misadventures and MRI. Wife is doing better but still a bit of a struggle.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (x0n13)

May the healing hand of The Lord touch you both.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)

105 WEll, today it's my medical misadventures and MRI. Wife is doing better but still a bit of a struggle.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (x0n13)

Good luck with the tests.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 08:04 AM (tOcjL)

106 WEll, today it's my medical misadventures and MRI. Wife is doing better but still a bit of a struggle.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (x0n13)
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רפואה שלמה

החלמה מהירה

תפו-תפו

חמסה חמסה

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 08:04 AM (1o8D5)

107 Hackensack-ack-ack-ack

Posted by: Delurker at March 11, 2026 08:04 AM (gtcuf)

108 Theater kid that has never been held accountable by the media and society for anything he has done. Just an older version of Talarico in TX bloviating and signalling like mad while totally incapable of self reflection.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (E4rtv)

But he's JUST SOOOOO HOTT!!!!!!!

Posted by: Katie Couric at March 11, 2026 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)

109 If the Democrats win, they'll keep right on obstructing Trump at every turn and forcing ugly confrontations about impeachment and things. They won't have the votes for it. He'll have to keep on governing by executive order, as he is right now.

I disagree with you here: They have the votes for impeachment.

Furthermore Supreme Court is finished. Thomas will retire someday, and without SAVE Act (which will never happen under the current composition of the Congress) the Senate will forever be Marxist Communist. It will be empty judge seats and empty or court appointed US Attorneys. Justice will be a thing of the past.

We already know that judges have greater authority than the POTUS and the SCOTUS will eventually be ground down by the hundreds of mini-POTUSes and the endless lawsuits and relent.

That is why Trump is doing All The Things Now. Because he has one year to save America unless we Beat The Cheat this 2026 Election Season.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:04 AM (a4flb)

110 This is quite rich coming from Mr. Highest Gas Prices in the Country.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)
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Who, me?
-Gavin "Who, me?" Newsom

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

111 Prayers coming your way on your MRI today, JJ.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

112 WEll, today it's my medical misadventures and MRI. Wife is doing better but still a bit of a struggle.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (x0n13)

Good luck with the tests.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 08:04 AM (tOcjL)
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When in doubt, the answer is always "C"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2026 08:05 AM (ESVrU)

113 100 I'm sure the Dems will be chirping about finishing first in the MTG seat jungle primary. Short lived because the total of the next four finishers, all Republicans, will crush them in the runoff
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Dems got about 40 percent, GOP and the odd libertarian, 60 percent. And an unnecessary expense by an entitled beach blond blowhard MTG with denial of representation to the district for over 4 months. She and her pitiful RAV husband who got his ass handed to him on X yesterday, deserve each other.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:05 AM (E4rtv)

114 100 I'm sure the Dems will be chirping about finishing first in the MTG seat jungle primary. Short lived because the total of the next four finishers, all Republicans, will crush them in the runoff
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 08:03 AM (qBBPl)

But it does mean Johnson stays only a plurality leader for the next 2ish months?? til the runoff...Rs wouldn't drop out (it's like CA's gov race that way)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 08:05 AM (tOcjL)

115 Because we have family flying this week, my wife informed me that there are delays and cancelled flights at airports because DHS still is not funded. Is this true?? If so, it's getting pushed out of the news by everything else... Dems should be getting slaughtered for not funding DHS

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 08:06 AM (xT8gx)

116 But he's JUST SOOOOO HOTT!!!!!!!
Posted by: Katie Couric
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Repellant media whore says what?

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:06 AM (E4rtv)

117 I'm sure the Dems will be chirping about finishing first in the MTG seat jungle primary. Short lived because the total of the next four finishers, all Republicans, will crush them in the runoff

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I haven't followed along after that blockhead resigned. Are there any good R prospects in the running?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 08:07 AM (qBdHI)

118 Many Worried That The Giant Spiders Attacking New York Could Lead To An Increase In Hateful Arachnophobia

Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2026 08:07 AM (7N3EA)

119 115 Because we have family flying this week, my wife informed me that there are delays and cancelled flights at airports because DHS still is not funded. Is this true?? If so, it's getting pushed out of the news by everything else... Dems should be getting slaughtered for not funding DHS
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 08:06 AM (xT8gx)

Yes...also people are missing flights b/c of security lines, so go extra early...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 08:07 AM (tOcjL)

120 115 Because we have family flying this week, my wife informed me that there are delays and cancelled flights at airports because DHS still is not funded. Is this true?? If so, it's getting pushed out of the news by everything else... Dems should be getting slaughtered for not funding DHS
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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They don't care. But neither does Thune in the Senate as he could push Homeland Security funding through by reconciliation bill. The main problem with the GOP is the Senate caucus as they do nothing, say nothing of much value, and believe that they are there to preen and grab generational wealth for their families.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:08 AM (E4rtv)

121 ------
Repellant media whore says what?
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:06 AM (E4rtv)

It's all they have. I mean "Beto" was 'hot.' Newsome is 'hot.' They're down to searching for the next JFK since Americans are distracted by beauty over substance and their current crop of Marxists have nothing of substance but misery and depression.

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

122 >>> The Washington Wizards are not a real basketball team this year...150 pts to the opponents without OT is a reflection of how bad they are vs maybe how great Adebayo is.

So what you're saying is they are worse than the Washington Generals...

Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 08:08 AM (6FFTi)

123 117 I'm sure the Dems will be chirping about finishing first in the MTG seat jungle primary. Short lived because the total of the next four finishers, all Republicans, will crush them in the runoff

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I haven't followed along after that blockhead resigned. Are there any good R prospects in the running?
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 08:07 AM (qBdHI)

Good - who knows...the Trump-endorsesd R is in the runoff, so it is who he wanted, so that's good...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 08:08 AM (tOcjL)

124 We paid $5.49 reg/gal up $0.20 since last week

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

125 The White House also confirmed yesterday there is no change in Trump's deportation plans. It's a messaging issue. If the actual plan changes then I'll be angry but this isn't that.

I can't imagine that if ICE just happens to round up a stray or three while going after a target for deportation that they just won't let the illegals walk.

Even so, ICE still has its hands full and the hiring of more agents is still going strong. I wonder how many furloughed DHS employees are taking a look at shifting to ICE because that is where the current income stream is.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:09 AM (a4flb)

126 @86 Adebayo had 43fg attempts and 43 ft attempts. He averages 20 a game. Somebody was doing a horrible job guarding him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 08:10 AM (qBBPl)

127 I haven't followed along after that blockhead resigned. Are there any good R prospects in the running?
Posted by: Lady in Black

Clay Fuller is probably going to win. Finished second by a fraction but the GOP is likely to come together there to give him a win April 7th.

The firebrand GOPer, a former state senator named Colton, tried a last ditch slime attack by proxy which didn't work. The only issue will be Fuller has to prove whether he gives a shit about the district nationally and representing it or whether he cares more about pleasing the GOP Kemp machine in GA.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:10 AM (E4rtv)

128 We paid $5.49 reg/gal up $0.20 since last week

Think of the price hikes as chemotherapy for removing a malignant and metastasizing cancer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:10 AM (a4flb)

129 It's all they have. I mean "Beto" was 'hot.' Newsome is 'hot.' They're down to searching for the next JFK since Americans are distracted by beauty over substance and their current crop of Marxists have nothing of substance but misery and depression.

--

Dem females vote for who makes them feel the most tingly in their no-no squares.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

130 120 The main problem with the GOP is the Senate caucus as they do nothing, say nothing of much value, and believe that they are there to preen and grab generational wealth for their families.

Therein lies the difference between the two parties. The Repubs are there to are there to preen and grab generational wealth for their families. The Dems are there to preen and grab generational wealth for their families and join in lockstep to pass every Dem legislation their leaders want.

Posted by: Delurker at March 11, 2026 08:11 AM (gtcuf)

131 these so called evangelical leaders will have NO direct impact negatively; I have an idea why don't they give up their multi-million dollar auditoriums and their mid 6 figure salaries to help the illegals--no thanks TV preacher

Posted by: paulnjax at March 11, 2026 08:11 AM (PPnyU)

132 122 >>> The Washington Wizards are not a real basketball team this year...150 pts to the opponents without OT is a reflection of how bad they are vs maybe how great Adebayo is.

So what you're saying is they are worse than the Washington Generals...
Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 08:08 AM (6FFTi)

Yes...I'm not sure how they have any wins, but in the NBA, normally there are now 3-4 teams each year that are on purpose awful, trying to get draft picks, and those teams do play each other and someone has to win.

It's like having the D league in the real league every year. It's when I stopped watching regularly (and now just check in every week or so) when the Sixers took that plan of losing, but then kept at it for 3-5 years...and it didn't win them anything later anyway...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 08:11 AM (tOcjL)

133 That anti-recording device is interesting, although I suspect it will not be as efffective as advertised. I’ll bet it would have no effect on an older analog cassette recorder, although they’re not around anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 08:11 AM (7yOPh)

134 Dems should be getting slaughtered for not funding DHS

Of course they won't. ICE is putting little babies in cages and gunning down lesbian moms because TRUMP!!! DHS being unfunded is because he says mean things and the Dems are the force of light against his evil.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 11, 2026 08:12 AM (BpO1e)

135 Morning JJ and everyone!

Just boarded a flight. Security was a breeze. Not only did we not have to take off shoes, we left all our electronics in our bags. Basically they didn't want us to take anything out of our bags.

It was very nice, and maybe was to speed things up. Of course it begs the question...why can't we do this ALL THE TIME!!

And I didn't get the mandatory pat down/grope in the security line either. Maybe a smaller TSA could be a good thing!

Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 08:12 AM (6FFTi)

136 > Because we have family flying this week, my wife informed me that there are delays and cancelled flights at airports because DHS still is not funded.
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It's been like this for weeks... ever since the Dems defunded DHS (and the agencies under it, like TSA.) Security lines are off the hook, delays everywhere.

But because it's the Democrats causing the aggravations, the media doesn't report on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 08:12 AM (jtM2q)

137 It's all they have. I mean "Beto" was 'hot.' Newsome is 'hot.' They're down to searching for the next JFK since Americans are distracted by beauty over substance and their current crop of Marxists have nothing of substance but misery and depression.
Posted by: Sponge
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Eloi wanting silly people that they can feel good about supporting I guess even while the ship of state is sinking.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:12 AM (E4rtv)

138 They don't care. But neither does Thune in the Senate as he could push Homeland Security funding through by reconciliation bill. The main problem with the GOP is the Senate caucus as they do nothing, say nothing of much value, and believe that they are there to preen and grab generational wealth for their families.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:08 AM (E4rtv)

Yes, why have we not used that maneuver, at least...what is he waiting for??

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 08:12 AM (tOcjL)

139 It's all they have. I mean "Beto" was 'hot.' Newsome is 'hot.' They're down to searching for the next JFK since Americans are distracted by beauty over substance and their current crop of Marxists have nothing of substance but misery and depression.

Ballot fraud doesn't care what someone looks like.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:12 AM (a4flb)

140 China is rumored to be about to announce a 500 jet order from Boeing for new 737 airplanes. That's a huge win for Boeing if it comes true.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 08:14 AM (lIBIk)

141 OMG, how he didn't get struck on the spot with lightening after saying this is beyond me.

This is quite rich coming from Mr. Highest Gas Prices in the Country.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

He supported the law that made Chevron leave the state.
Refineries have to store so many days of product so that the consumer is not affected by storms, retrofits, and turn-arounds.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

142 Fox reports that the new ayatollah has a serious leg injury.
Ahaha.
This is funnier than the exploding pagers.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at March 11, 2026 08:14 AM (jZ3ZM)

143
Dem females vote for who makes them feel the most tingly in their no-no squares.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 11, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

To quote Metallica, you know it's sad but true.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

144
124 We paid $5.49 reg/gal up $0.20 since last week
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

Wow, I was disappointed here to see gas go up to $2.90

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 08:14 AM (7yOPh)

145 They have the votes for impeachment.

Who cares?

They've already impeached him twice. Let them impeach him weekly for the remainder of his term. Unless they have 67 votes in the Senate, and they don't, impeachment is theater.

Justice will be a thing of the past.

We're already there. We've been there for five years now, at least.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

146 Nova, the GOP Senators are owned by their donors, and have the luxury of the 6 year term. Spend 6 months every 6 years pretending to care , like McCain, and get back in and play squish for another 5

Posted by: Jonah at March 11, 2026 08:16 AM (YCxFk)

147 The main problem with the GOP is the Senate caucus as they do nothing, say nothing of much value, and believe that they are there to preen and grab generational wealth for their families.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:08 AM (E4rtv)
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The main problem is everything!

I agree: the GOPe Senate Caucus is the root of much of our problem in this country. Just look at the incredibly ineffectual John Thune! What a loser.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 08:16 AM (lIBIk)

148 Therein lies the difference between the two parties. The Repubs are there to are there to preen and grab generational wealth for their families. The Dems are there to preen and grab generational wealth for their families and join in lockstep to pass every Dem legislation their leaders want.
Posted by: Delurker
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Which is why we cannot spare Trump, like Lincoln said of General Grant, "he fights". He might make errors but those are good faith errors trying to steer the ship of state through a lot of storms.

And like Lincoln having to go to extraordinary lengths to try to hold the country together over slavery and secession, Trump is trying to confront the enemies of the US, domestic and foreign, so that our children may have a better tomorrow. That is a fight worth winning.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:16 AM (E4rtv)

149 117 I'm sure the Dems will be chirping about finishing first in the MTG seat jungle primary. Short lived because the total of the next four finishers, all Republicans, will crush them in the runoff

I'm hoping for the opposite in the CA gubernatorial race. Theoretically with a bunch of dems on the ballot and only two republicans, the result of the open primary could be those two republicans on the general election ballot guaranteeing a republican governor. Almost certainly won't happen but it's a mathematical possibility!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 08:16 AM (xT8gx)

150 Justice will be a thing of the past.

No one in the Owebama or Biden administrations are in prison.

There is no justice only Zuul.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

151 For the life of me, I don't understand why megatons of AP munitions aren't being dropped.

https://tinyurl.com/2styuewt

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 08:17 AM (5UTWB)

152 They don't care. But neither does Thune in the Senate as he could push Homeland Security funding through by reconciliation bill. The main problem with the GOP is the Senate caucus as they do nothing, say nothing of much value, and believe that they are there to preen and grab generational wealth for their families.

I'm trying to understand - why then, is the Senate GOP-e investing so much political capital in preserving Cornyn?

In a way, isn't he a competitor for finite lobbyist funds? I know that he is a complete and total loser and has nothing to show for his decades in office other than trillions in debt and a dysfunctional judiciary, but what if the GOP Senate manages to dump Paxton but disgruntled Texans fail to override the vote for Demonic Party's candidate Screwtape?

I don't get their strategery. They sure as hell ain't loyal to anyone but themselves.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:17 AM (a4flb)

153 LOLOL.

Just read that Abby Phillips of CNN fame reported that the ISIS terrorists that attempted to murder the protestors outside of Gracie Mansion were ACKSHUALLY trying to murder Mamdani............

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

154 Thune is so worried about the integrity of the Filibuster and Thomas Jefferson. Granted in times were the Dems still had reasonable Senate leadership that would make sense.

But day one it is gone if the rats get another trifecta

Posted by: Jonah at March 11, 2026 08:18 AM (YCxFk)

155 The Senate GOP is more concerned with John Cornyn's re-election than they are with passing the SAVE Act.

That's what matters to them, and they do not care what matters to us.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 08:19 AM (lIBIk)

156 According to reports, the new supreme leader of the regime in Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, is severely injured and is currently on life support in the ICU of the Sina hospital.

He is reportedly unaware that the war started or that his father is dead.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

157 77 All very succinct and accurate, but you left out one thing - a credulous population in deep denial, who refuse to accept that everything is moot, and keep on cheerleading for their own victimization by whichever gangster faction their dad supported.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 07:50 AM (BI5O2)

Well, kind of.

People who support Rs support the Gangster Faction their father did.

People who support Ds support the Gangster Faction their father opposed, because "F*** You, Dad! I can dye my hair green if I want!"

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2026 08:20 AM (wa/yD)

158 Dems will send Luc Abrazzi and Al Neri to Cal, to get some Dems to drop out of the Guv race soon

Posted by: Jonah at March 11, 2026 08:20 AM (YCxFk)

159 131 these so called evangelical leaders will have NO direct impact negatively; I have an idea why don't they give up their multi-million dollar auditoriums and their mid 6 figure salaries to help the illegals--no thanks TV preacher
Posted by: paulnjax

It is all about the social credit signalling to them for their perceived peer group. And they figure their flocks will still keep them in the style they are accustomed to. And given they are already whores for bucks, they may easily sell their pulpit for some cold hard cash from NGOs trying to keep open borders in place. Same as influencers online or US Senators.

The fact that they can be bought is not surprising. The fact that these are cheap whores that can be bought for as little as a street walker is what is amazing. It is as if they value their souls so cheap that a nickel or dime will buy it and them.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:20 AM (E4rtv)

160 Yes, why have we not used that maneuver, at least...what is he waiting for??
Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 08:12 AM (tOcjL)

He is not impacted. He doesn't care.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

161 He is reportedly unaware that the war started or that his father is dead.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:19 AM (gbOdA)
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So... Ayatollah Coma'ni?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 08:20 AM (5UTWB)

162 They've already impeached him twice. Let them impeach him weekly for the remainder of his term. Unless they have 67 votes in the Senate, and they don't, impeachment is theater.

I think that this time there will be a number of nominal Republican cross-overs. Have you heard the hate and invective against Trump by these degenerates?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:21 AM (a4flb)

163 It's not just gas prices that are/will go up due to the war. Since most everything uses fuel to move commodities from point A to B those goods are going to cost more.

Some goods, a lot more. Depending on how far away they are and how they're moved from there to here.

Container shipping is being hit hard with fuel costs. Tankers that typically move fuel products from the Middle East to North America are not moving much of that fuel right now. So, gas and diesel prices go up.

Opening the Hormuz would alleviate some of this. Whether this is priority #1 or 2 or 3 with the Iran war is debatable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 08:21 AM (jtM2q)

164 156 According to reports, the new supreme leader of the regime in Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, is severely injured and is currently on life support in the ICU of the Sina hospital.

He is reportedly unaware that the war started or that his father is dead.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Some wag on X termed Mojtaba as Schrodinger's Mullah. We only know whether or not the mullah is alive by opening the box.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:21 AM (E4rtv)

165 Rachel Zegler has loads of back hair and her arms look like a Go-rilla.

Posted by: Hirsute Hackensackian at March 11, 2026 08:22 AM (oftw2)

166 For the life of me, I don't understand why megatons of AP munitions aren't being dropped.

https://tinyurl.com/2styuewt
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 08:17 AM (5UTWB)

Bad press.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

167 This picture, more than any other image I've ever seen, encapsulates the ideology of modern Leftism.
This Insane Moment Belongs In A Dystopian Novel
____

I just read the article above. The left are willing to put their lives on the line to destroy the country. Insane.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 08:22 AM (Dv3i1)

168
So... Ayatollah Coma'ni?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 08:20 AM (5UTWB)

I'll give you an A for effort on that one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

169 I'm trying to understand - why then, is the Senate GOP-e investing so much political capital in preserving Cornyn?

Maybe he gives good head.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

170 155 The Senate GOP is more concerned with John Cornyn's re-election than they are with passing the SAVE Act.

That's what matters to them, and they do not care what matters to us.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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I think many of those statewide GOP figures have used fraud and rigging in primaries to get to the top of the ticket. Less important in House districts but I think that many of the GOP senators buy votes in states with large urban Dem centers using the same fraudsters that Dems use for general elections.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:24 AM (E4rtv)

171 The Senate GOP is more concerned with John Cornyn's re-election than they are with passing the SAVE Act.

Since Paxton said he'd drop out if they passed SAVE, they're gambling that they can both keep Cornyn AND kill SAVE.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

172 The DNC is suing the Trump admin to try to compel the government to say whether it is planning to put armed federal agents or military personnel at polling places and election offices this year.

haha

Make the enemy waste their time and money.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

173 Tommy Robinson is out of the UK now, right?

@TRobinsonNewEra
Schools are being WARNED that children's drawings could be "blasphemous" to Muslim "sensitives". You had enough of this crap yet?
Literally creeping sharia.

The article he posted also says Labour councils are warning teachers that music and dance classes could be contrary to the teachings of Islam.

They are always welcome to go home if UK classes teaching UK cultural staples offend them.

Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 08:25 AM (FQ1u5)

174 169 I'm trying to understand - why then, is the Senate GOP-e investing so much political capital in preserving Cornyn?

Maybe he gives good head.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Chits for his position as Mitch McConnell's right hand man during the Obama years and his heading of the Senate Campaign Fund way back. Cornyn was Majority and Minority Whip until 2018 and before that, 2009-12, I think he was head of the Senate Campaign Fund.

The truth is most senators hate and despise their constituents as they believe their own press releases of how wonderful they are. Some House members do, but senators, in general are far more insufferable than the average House member.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:26 AM (E4rtv)

175 I think that this time there will be a number of nominal Republican cross-overs. Have you heard the hate and invective against Trump by these degenerates?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:21 AM (a4flb)

So you think that at least 17 Republican Senators, assuming a 50/50 Senate AND after McConnell is replaced, will commit electoral suicide just to replace Trump with Vance?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

176
Since Paxton said he'd drop out if they passed SAVE, they're gambling that they can both keep Cornyn AND kill SAVE.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

Paxton needs to start running ads. Chock full of substance and receipts on how poor Cornyn is for his constituents. All Cornyn has on Paxton is he's getting divorced and already has a girlfriend.

I don't care about that 'deal.' I'm pushing for Paxton, SAVE Act or not. Texas rid itself of Patch McCain, it can do the next right thing and send Cornyn to pasture.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

177 The NY Post has a story about the cop who jumped over the barrier to tackle the attempted bomber in NYC . It says, Edwards was a college student studying biology when terrorists struck NYC on 9/11, 2001. "I saw what happened, and I took one of the first tests afterward for the academy."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2026 08:27 AM (afKoR)

178 Me personally.... even if Trump endorses Cornyn in the runoff (I don't think he will), I'm still voting for Paxton. I can't bring myself to vote for Cornyn. Nope, not gonna happen

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 08:27 AM (xT8gx)

179 Rachel Zegler is one of our best customers!

Posted by: Advanced Electrolysis And Waxing Institute at March 11, 2026 08:28 AM (oftw2)

180 the ISIS terrorists that attempted to murder the protestors outside of Gracie Mansion were ACKSHUALLY trying to murder Mamdani............
——-

On 9/11/2001 the media talking heads were pathetic, positing everything, anything, except the obvious. One airhead pondered on air wondering if it was a problem with ATC, as if pilots would inevitably crash into skyscrapers on clear days.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 08:28 AM (kMjfk)

181 Tommy Robinson is out of the UK now, right?

He was in the US not long ago interviewing another UK exile that had to claim asylum to the US because she said sharia was 'gay' online and would be arrested should she return home.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

182 Dem females vote for who makes them feel the most tingly in their no-no squares.
____

A gay half-black man with perfect creases in his pant leg was just the perfect amount of exotic to get the juices flowing.
- D. Brooks

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 08:29 AM (Dv3i1)

183 It says, Edwards was a college student studying biology when terrorists struck NYC on 9/11, 2001. "I saw what happened, and I took one of the first tests afterward for the academy."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2026 08:27 AM (afKoR)

Islamaphobia, obviously. Duh......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

184 171 The Senate GOP is more concerned with John Cornyn's re-election than they are with passing the SAVE Act.

Since Paxton said he'd drop out if they passed SAVE, they're gambling that they can both keep Cornyn AND kill SAVE.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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I think the 25 megaton thermonuclear weapon that Trump may use to blast the US Senate is the election fraud investigations where both Georgia and Arizona and foreign intel intercepts are going to be exposed. Scuttlebutt is evidence of Chinese interference with US elections both electronically and physically.

Not going to happen as long as US is at war with Iran for obvious reasons. Best to be used when the attention turns back to domestic affairs.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:31 AM (E4rtv)

185 One airhead pondered on air wondering if it was a problem with ATC, as if pilots would inevitably crash into skyscrapers on clear days.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 08:28 AM (kMjfk)

"Uh, Echo Tango Niner, proceed to 1100 feet and set heading for that big building right there........"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

186 For the life of me, I don't understand why megatons of AP munitions aren't being dropped.

https://tinyurl.com/2styuewt
**********

Seems it's old footage from Qasem Soleimani's funeral procession in Tehran in 2020

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 08:31 AM (Y1sOo)

187 Zegler is from NJ.

Her parents were both born here.

Hell she was named after Rachel from friends.

This is all an act to get her positive press from the FNM

Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2026 08:31 AM (sKqQm)

188 Now it’s the Exxon Mobil Corporation, which announced Tuesday that 144 years after it incorporated in the state, its Board of Directors unanimously recommended that shareholders change the company’s legal domicile from New Jersey to Texas.

A M F

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

189 They are always welcome to go home if UK classes teaching UK cultural staples offend them.
Posted by: LizLem

No. They are our most precious voters. However, you are far-right wing scum and welcome to leave.
- Kwier Starmer

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 08:31 AM (Dv3i1)

190 Today Is National Debunking Day,

Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2026 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

191 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

192
This is all an act to get her positive press from the FNM
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2026 08:31 AM (sKqQm)

After she labeled a majority of Americans racist for hating her as Snow White?

Good luck with THAT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

193 There's a couple young, midget Disney actresses with eyes on the side of their head like a fish. Rachel Zegler is just one of them. How this came to be judged as attractive, we'll never know. What's next, eyes on top of their heads, like a flounder?

Posted by: Standards Have Fallen at March 11, 2026 08:32 AM (oftw2)

194 I voted for Cornyn in his first bid for Senator. He was accessible and was strong on issues important to Texas. 6 years and he turned into a complete piece of shit. I have never voted for him.since.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 08:33 AM (+nEug)

195 Not going to happen as long as US is at war with Iran for obvious reasons. Best to be used when the attention turns back to domestic affairs.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:31 AM (E4rtv)

Which is great since, I believe, Paxton would have to drop out before the 18th or he'll be on the ballot and I can vote against Cornyn again even if they do pass SAVE.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

196 190 Today Is National Debunking Day,

Already shown not to be true.

/just a joke

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 11, 2026 08:34 AM (DgMqy)

197 A gay half-black man with perfect creases in his pant leg was just the perfect amount of exotic to get the juices flowing.
- D. Brooks
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Was. I simply don't see the thrill anymore from the Dems for Barry as they are always about the next thing. I think their next thing is what Hillary craved, a female as president--their problem is that their female pool is crazy for trooning castrations, illegal immigrants, coddling criminals, and trying to take firearms. And there is a color split as the POC demand precedent over AWFULs which pits two of the largest contigents of Democrat base voters against each other.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:34 AM (E4rtv)

198 142 Fox reports that the new ayatollah has a serious leg injury.
Ahaha.
This is funnier than the exploding pagers.
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at March 11, 2026 08:14 AM (jZ3ZM)

"Supreme Leader of Iran" and "Ayatollah" are not the same thing.

There's more than one Ayatollah. (Ayatollah is just a term for a high-ranking Shi'a Imam) There's only one "Supreme Leader of Iran" (at a time, since they keep getting vaporized).

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2026 08:34 AM (wa/yD)

199 Today Is National Debunking Day,
Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2026 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

First thing I did when I woke up this morning was I debunked!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 08:34 AM (xT8gx)

200 There's a couple young, midget Disney actresses with eyes on the side of their head like a fish. Rachel Zegler is just one of them. How this came to be judged as attractive, we'll never know. What's next, eyes on top of their heads, like a flounder?
Posted by: Standards Have Fallen at March 11, 2026 08:32 AM (oftw2)

I remember when Brandi was a pop star trying to make it in the acting world. A co-worker told me how hot she was. I told him she looked like that alien character from the bar scene in Star Wars with the eyes protruding from each side of its head.

He couldn't watch her show anymore.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

201 In a private meeting, James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, encouraged House Republicans to adjust how they discuss immigration. "

"private" huh?

Yeah, this smells like the "three sources said" carp the other day. I'll refrain from lighting my pitchfork, thankyouverymuch.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR)

202 Today Is National Debunking Day,
Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2026 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

I couldn't sleep anyway. Debunking was no real problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

203 Which is great since, I believe, Paxton would have to drop out before the 18th or he'll be on the ballot and I can vote against Cornyn again even if they do pass SAVE.
Posted by: I used
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I think the longer that Paxton stays in and the Senate doesn't do jack shit on SAVE means doom for Cornyn. Like roadkill, Cornyn does not improve with time, heat, and sunlight in odor.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:36 AM (E4rtv)

204 Which is great since, I believe, Paxton would have to drop out before the 18th or he'll be on the ballot and I can vote against Cornyn again even if they do pass SAVE.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

I think this is the 4-D chess Paxton is playing.

"I said I'd drop out of the primary. Since you failed at your end of the bargain in time, I'm running, bitch."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

205 The Iran dust-up has taken my pet peeve and issue off the headlines. The continuing problem of women farding in cars whilst driving.

Posted by: The Huge Manatee!!! at March 11, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)

206 He is reportedly unaware that the war started or that his father is dead.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:19 AM (gbOdA)
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So... Ayatollah Coma'ni?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Golf clap

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2026 08:37 AM (MwdeY)

207 I think the longer that Paxton stays in and the Senate doesn't do jack shit on SAVE means doom for Cornyn. Like roadkill, Cornyn does not improve with time, heat, and sunlight in odor.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:36 AM (E4rtv)

The fact that Cornyn was that close to 50% saddens me greatly, actually.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

208 They made Snow White a mexican immigrant FFS

Next Cinderella will be a Mohemmedan Trans Girl treated badly by her Church going Step-Mother.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

209 Whatever happened to the "Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Two Iranian drones hit near Dubai International Airport"

Oh no!....

Wait a tic - "near"? And how many planes/flights affected?

Oh, zero?

Okeydokey.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

211 National Debunking Day? No Tara Yazdi bikini pics for me, then, darn it.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (77rzZ)

212 The fact that Cornyn was that close to 50% saddens me greatly, actually.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

You have many old white people that vote on seeing a name they know.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

213 201 In a private meeting, James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, encouraged House Republicans to adjust how they discuss immigration. "

"private" huh?

Yeah, this smells like the "three sources said" carp the other day. I'll refrain from lighting my pitchfork, thankyouverymuch.
Posted by: man

I can see that House members were cautioned about not appearing 'mean' in deportations but rather to focus primarily on the criminals, whack jobs, and terrorists. Removing those polls the best right now and the fact that Democrats are so desperate to keep those pet criminals in the US highlights the whole message that Democrats hate citizens and love criminals/terrorists both foreign and domestic.

Trump used close to that line in his SOTU.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (E4rtv)

214 Supreme Leader Eileen.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at March 11, 2026 08:39 AM (jZ3ZM)

215 209 Whatever happened to the "Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

He rolled over and is almost dead.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

216
You have many old white people that vote on seeing a name they know.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

Likely, but the work Paxton has done as AG should give him PLENTY of name recognition at this point, unless they really do only watch broadcast network news.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

217 Sending more prayers for you and your wife, J.J.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2026 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

218 . . . So Zegler doesn’t want to assimilate because she comes first—like every other foreigner living off the comforts and privileges America affords while actively working to destroy it.

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Seems like our chief import the past six decades aligns with our chief export in academia: Narcissism (best exemplified by the ~~"election"~~ installation of The DogEater into The White House).

The Fall and Decline of The Onanism Empire ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 11, 2026 08:39 AM (xIFh6)

219 Good morning! Vit B shot finished, let’s go get this day!

Posted by: Piper at March 11, 2026 08:39 AM (OoFl2)

220 Supreme Leader Eileen.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at March 11, 2026 08:39 AM (jZ3ZM)

Come on......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

221 183-

There was some humor in this in that that after seeing the pictures later of his jumping over the barrier his wife texted him, "Wrong direction, sir" -although the cop added his spouse is "always supportive" because "she knows this is what I love."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2026 08:40 AM (q5DOt)

222 Next Cinderella will be a Mohemmedan Trans Girl treated badly by her Church going Step-Mother."

*hollywierdland writer takes notice*

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

223 209 Whatever happened to the "Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Chris Jericho? He's in his 50s and wrestling fans are sick and tired of him. The company he's currently signed to is holding up his contract (which could have ended in January) in order to keep him off TV.

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2026 08:41 AM (wa/yD)

224 Come on......"

That you, Dexy?

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

225 Whatever happened to the "Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)
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They Qum and they go.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2026 08:42 AM (5UTWB)

226 The fact that Cornyn was that close to 50% saddens me greatly, actually.
Posted by: Sponge
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He spent 70 million bucks and his butt buddies spent 30 million from non associated PACs that he has carried water for in the past. So, 100 million bucks versus Paxton's 4 million. Both have the same amount in the bank, about 4-5 million apiece.

Now Cornyn faces a runoff where the turnout is going to be less than the primary and trending away for low info primary voters. The lack of clutter of primary races means that Paxton can now highlight Cornyn's career in office. And it will reveal Cornyn has done little for the US and Texas but a lot for his donors and fellow senators.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:42 AM (E4rtv)

227 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

For those morons not on the ONT grammie's son let us know surgery went well and she is now on a long road to recovery. b"h
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 07:42 AM (RIvkX)
*******
Great news! Thanks for updating us!

Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2026 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

228
Chris Jericho? He's in his 50s and wrestling fans are sick and tired of him. The company he's currently signed to is holding up his contract (which could have ended in January) in order to keep him off TV.
Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2026 08:41 AM (wa/yD)

I was actually referring to the Mario Van Peebles character in Heartbreak Ridge.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

229 Whatever happened to the "Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

If memory serves, he re-enlisted at the end of the movie.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

230 The Space Force that Democrats sneered at is now saving American lives and protecting our allies from hostile missile fire.

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* President Reagan's SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) has entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 08:44 AM (xIFh6)

231 So you think that at least 17 Republican Senators, assuming a 50/50 Senate AND after McConnell is replaced, will commit electoral suicide just to replace Trump with Vance?

If that were the only dynamic, but you are making a number of assumptions and probably deliberately avoiding others:

• People voted for Trump not Republicans
• SAVE Act is crucially important but didn't get into law.
• The normal mid-terms Blues
• The Trump fatigue that has hit a lot of the GOP-E and is only increasing
• Backroom deals for votes to impeach (eg $$$)
• Mimetic Theory

and those are just some of the other variables at play

Otherwise your rigid, single variable equation makes sense as long as no one thinks very deep.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:44 AM (a4flb)

232 Now Cornyn faces a runoff where the turnout is going to be less than the primary and trending away for low info primary voters. The lack of clutter of primary races means that Paxton can now highlight Cornyn's career in office. And it will reveal Cornyn has done little for the US and Texas but a lot for his donors and fellow senators.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:42 AM (E4rtv)

I certainly hope this is the case. Paxton has plenty of ammo to use, I just hope he uses it. He needs to get the base excited where they actually vote. Cornyn needs to go.

Enough with the RINO bullshit artists flooding our republic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

233 Chris Jericho?"

No, you foetus. The Lord Humungus, The Warrior of the Wastelands...

My pronouns, BTW.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

234 Supreme Leader Eileen.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot

Which way???

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2026 08:44 AM (MwdeY)

235 And we have another White House gate-crasher

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 08:44 AM (Y1sOo)

236 In a country of 90m, with an overbearing State, I have to figure the regime is a couple million strong. If even a tenth are as fanatical as they proclaim, this is going to take a while.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 08:45 AM (Gybgx)

237
If memory serves, he re-enlisted at the end of the movie.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

RECON!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

238 Why jawbone about every illegal that's been run down and set for deportation? All that does is open the door for criticism. Bad press. Trump hates bad press.

I’ve been saying this for a while. If it’s not in the MFM it doesn’t exist for many people. ICE has been deporting people at the same rate since before Iran started but since the protests and media coverage went away few know about it. And so there’s no bad press. I think that’s the root of the White House saying to STFU.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2026 08:46 AM (QZThv)

239 RECON!!!!!!!"

Well, it does make a unique sound when fired at you...

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:46 AM (XuXeR)

240 Otherwise your rigid, single variable equation makes sense as long as no one thinks very deep.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Which is the majority of voters.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2026 08:46 AM (MwdeY)

241 You have many old white people that vote on seeing a name they know.

I'll permit blaming it on Boomers this time.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:47 AM (a4flb)

242 Adapt and improvise........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

243 makes sense as long as no one thinks very deep."

The Paolo, he knows deep.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

244 Why isn’t motormouth Megan Rapinoe using her megaphone for Iran’s female soccer team?

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Maybe Cucker can get them asylum in Qatar?

/Nah, he'd likely have to take a pay cut ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 08:47 AM (xIFh6)

245 >>He suggested shifting away from talk of “mass deportations” and narrowing the administration’s efforts to deport only confirmed dangerous criminals.

Yes, because the two would-be NYC mass murderers were perfect examples of how even legal immigration* has been a failure in recent years. DId they need to kill people in order for that to be obvious to Mr. Deputy Chief of Staff?

*I am assuming their parents came here as refugees, though the mansion seems to indicate possible fraud via their franchises?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2026 08:47 AM (Suwql)

246 The very idea that muslims are "persecuted" in muslim countries is stupid. They are the ones who do the persecuting.

Posted by: night lifted at March 11, 2026 08:48 AM (kJmLc)

247 Why isn’t motormouth Megan Rapinoe using her megaphone for Iran’s female soccer team?

She's too busy pulling up the ladder behind her while eating skank pussy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

248 She's too busy pulling up the ladder behind her while eating skank pussy."

Well, there goes breakfast...

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:49 AM (XuXeR)

249 In a way, isn't he a competitor for finite lobbyist funds? I know that he is a complete and total loser and has nothing to show for his decades in office other than trillions in debt and a dysfunctional judiciary, but what if the GOP Senate manages to dump Paxton but disgruntled Texans fail to override the vote for Demonic Party's candidate Screwtape?

I don't get their strategery. They sure as hell ain't loyal to anyone but themselves.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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The answer is how those Senators got their office and who are their donors and benefactors including their families. As Data Republican has shown, it is a galaxy of connections in the ruling class that is best looked at as an Corporate and NGO-Government complex. Each of those senators is 'owned' by someone and increasing by those who are out of state but with large wallets.

Few, if any of those senators are truly of the people and as they end up serving terms until death or serious illness, they become more and more distant from the people. And that is the Keystone of government corruption, not the House, but the Senate.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:49 AM (E4rtv)

250 Whatever happened to the "Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

That moment in the movie where Gunny Sgt Highway ripped off his earring was awesome... Heartbreak Ridge

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 08:49 AM (xT8gx)

251 >>Why isn’t motormouth Megan Rapinoe using her megaphone for Iran’s female soccer team?

LOL, right?

I seem to recall that in the past, Iran had been caught using the hijabi uniforms to hide the fact that some of their female soccer players were men. Not transwomen, just plain men so that they could play better.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2026 08:49 AM (Suwql)

252
Well, there goes breakfast...
Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:49 AM (XuXeR)

I help where I can.

Sometimes, the body needs a good fast to recalculate metabolism.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

253 If that were the only dynamic, but you are making a number of assumptions and probably deliberately avoiding others:

• People voted for Trump not Republicans
• SAVE Act is crucially important but didn't get into law.
• The normal mid-terms Blues
• The Trump fatigue that has hit a lot of the GOP-E and is only increasing
• Backroom deals for votes to impeach (eg $$$)
• Mimetic Theory

and those are just some of the other variables at play

Otherwise your rigid, single variable equation makes sense as long as no one thinks very deep.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:44 AM (a4flb)

Lots of people talk about the processes of government while, apparently, remaining ignorant of them. Impeachment is irrelevant. Conviction by the Senate (which happens after, and is separate from, impeachment) matters.

There are currently 53 nominal Republican Senators. Let's assume that the mid-terms go badly and we lose 3 seat... that's why I said 50/50 Senate. People voted for Trump (Trump fatigue, backroom deals), not Republicans - so Senators will risk pissing off their voters because they have a sadz? SAVE Act... mimetic theory... what?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

254 Maybe Cucker can get them asylum in Qatar?

/Nah, he'd likely have to take a pay cut ...

I think they already cut him off when the Iranian missiles started raining on Doha. And that’s why his craziness has gone up a gear in the last week.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2026 08:50 AM (QZThv)

255 The answer is how those Senators got their office "

Yeah. If only the Founders had thought of another way.

Oh...

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:50 AM (XuXeR)

256 Farmer friend from Arkansas just told me fertilizer (nitrogen) just spiked up 25% because of Strait closure. It’s planting season, prices will increase at harvest. More farmers will go broke, and food inflation might sink Trump like it did Kamala.

That was just the excuse people used because they didn’t want to admit they would rather vote for a turd wrapped in putrid skin than a black woman.

US needs to eliminate tariffs on solar/batteries/evs and restart those wind and solar projects that Trump blocked.

He's against windmills because they put some offshore a golf course he was developing in Scotland, and he thinks they're ugly. Or he thinks they're fans that might mess up his hair.

From the article: President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday that “if Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY!”

This guy, he breaks me up 🤣

So when does Trump declare an emergency on gas prices and find some absolutely illegal way to drop the sanctions on Russian oil?

I guess if we didn’t want that, we shouldn’t have started the fucking war.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2026 08:50 AM (bcX03)

257 Sometimes, the body needs a good fast to recalculate metabolism."

Yeah, sure. Have another Hawaiian Punch.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

258 >>> I remember when Brandi was a pop star trying to make it in the acting world. A co-worker told me how hot she was. I told him she looked like that alien character from the bar scene in Star Wars with the eyes protruding from each side of its head.

Ironically, Brandi played Cinderella in a TV movie musical in the 90s, but was adorable. And didn't get upset at the patriarchy that Cinderella wants a prince to rescue her. Simpler times.

Whitney Houston was the fairy godmother and rocked it. The prince was Asian and the king was white and the queen was Whoopi Goldberg.

Yet it was non woke and good! There was a lot more actual colorblind casting in the 90s.

Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 08:52 AM (Ylesa)

259 Farmer friend from Arkansas just told me fertilizer (nitrogen) just spiked up 25% because of Strait closure. It’s planting season, prices will increase at harvest. More farmers will go broke, and food inflation might sink Trump like it did Kamala.

It's as if Iran has never f*cked with the Strait before..........And they also don't know that a vast majority of fertilizer comes from Russia.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Which is the majority of voters.

The voters have nothing to do with impeachment.

This is obvious when one sees how the GOP-E joins forces with the D party on all of these 80-20 issues.

The GOP-E hates Trump for:
• DOGE
• TOO efficient illegal alien round-up
• No Endless War to grift
• SAVE Act
• Tariffs
• Non Soros-endorsed judges and US Attorneys
• Trump not giving them head-up on Money Making military adventures.

The voters don't matter. The Uniparty does what the Uniparty wants, and if Trump is in the way, the Uniparty is sure hell of a lot more than 67 votes in the Senate.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:52 AM (a4flb)

261 I certainly hope this is the case. Paxton has plenty of ammo to use, I just hope he uses it. He needs to get the base excited where they actually vote. Cornyn needs to go.

Enough with the RINO bullshit artists flooding our republic.
Posted by: Sponge
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I think Paxton has to turn the runoff election into a referendum on the US Senate with Cornyn as a prime example of dysfunction with the SAVE act dithering a perfect example.

And it allows Paxton to be humble if he can be over his personal life to humanize him (which is needed). Paxton needs to humanize himself while attacking Cornyn as a symptom of what is wrong with the US Senate.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:52 AM (E4rtv)

262 So when does Trump declare an emergency on gas prices and find some absolutely illegal way to drop the sanctions on Russian oil?

I guess if we didn’t want that, we shouldn’t have started the fucking war.

It's like there's no oil or refineries in America.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

263
And it allows Paxton to be humble if he can be over his personal life to humanize him (which is needed). Paxton needs to humanize himself while attacking Cornyn as a symptom of what is wrong with the US Senate.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 08:52 AM (E4rtv)

Well, he's got a month and a half to do SOMETHING, so we'll see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

264 Read how the Marxists are fighting any ICE at polling places yet say not Illegals are voting

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2026 08:54 AM (EtnSa)

265 Yay, Bennie Thompson won his primary to serve his 18th term in Congress. His opponent a former Schumer staffer was 1yr old when Thompson started in Congress.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 08:54 AM (qBBPl)

266 It's like there's no oil or refineries in America."

Hey, we tried!

/NIMBY and HOA types everywhere

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:55 AM (XuXeR)

267 Morn' all... Do they know if it was a mine or a missle that hit the two ships ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 08:55 AM (fdJ1A)

268 Read how the Marxists are fighting any ICE at polling places yet say not Illegals are voting
Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2026 08:54 AM (EtnSa)

You're rayciss, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

269 It occurs to me that James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff is angling to replace Susie Wiles as CoS when she leaves in a couple months.

If this is the case, someone needs to sit his ass down and have a little talk.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 08:55 AM (jtM2q)

270 All the Venezuelan oil is going where? America, that's where.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 08:55 AM (+nEug)

271 ... find some absolutely illegal way to drop the sanctions on Russian oil?

Pretty sure that the sanctions are an executive action, not legislation, and so dropping them wouldn't be illegal but this is reddit so expecting understanding is pointless.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

272 >>> It's as if Iran has never f*cked with the Strait before..........And they also don't know that a vast majority of fertilizer comes from Russia.

Not the brightest bulbs.

Has the country that owns the peninsula that makes up the part of the strait that juts out, ever considered making a canal there, and bypassing the strait entirely? Costly but save everyone headaches.

Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 08:56 AM (Ylesa)

273 “I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.”

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Crash and burn, semi-attractive Rachel. Crash and burn.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 11, 2026 08:56 AM (ndZc7)

274 Has the country that owns the peninsula that makes up the part of the strait that juts out, ever considered making a canal there, and bypassing the strait entirely? Costly but save everyone headaches.
Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 08:56 AM (Ylesa)

Saw a meme the other day that pointed that out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

275 256 That was just the excuse people used because they didn’t want to admit they would rather vote for a turd wrapped in putrid skin than a black woman.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2026 08:50 AM (bcX03)

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Dems already freaking out about Talarico losing the general in November, I see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 08:56 AM (GBKbO)

276 Crash and burn, semi-attractive Rachel. Crash and burn.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 11, 2026 08:56 AM (ndZc7)

I really don't see this....at all.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

277 Yes, because the two would-be NYC mass murderers were perfect examples of how even legal immigration* has been a failure in recent years. DId they need to kill people in order for that to be obvious to Mr. Deputy Chief of Staff?

*I am assuming their parents came here as refugees, though the mansion seems to indicate possible fraud via their franchises?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2026 08:47 AM (Suwql)
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CNN, the NYT, and any others who glorify these terrorists will be the first and loudest to howl if the bombs actually explode any where near the reporters and editors. If it happens to others, they "try to give perspective", but if it happens to them, it's an attack on fundamental American values.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 08:58 AM (oA3dc)

278 @275 TJM, when you lose the African American vote by 96-4 in the Dem primary you're not looking real strong in the general

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 08:58 AM (qBBPl)

279 “I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.”

You forget you're in a career that requires people to like you?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

280 Morn' all... Do they know if it was a mine or a missle that hit the two ships ?"

Yes. Yes, it was.

*there's some confusion as to what actually happened. Of course, it's all Trumpsfault, so there*

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 08:58 AM (XuXeR)

281 It's as if Iran has never f*cked with the Strait before..........And they also don't know that a vast majority of fertilizer comes from Russia.

Now that you have mentioned Russia, have you too noticed that Russia isn't in the news much anymore?

Seems that Russia benefits the most from the Iranian Imbroglio both in instantly lax sanctions on nitrogen, phosphorus and hydrocarbons but also conveniently having staged tens of millions of barrels of oil ready for export if not already on the water.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 08:58 AM (a4flb)

282 278 @275 TJM, when you lose the African American vote by 96-4 in the Dem primary you're not looking real strong in the general

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 08:58 AM (qBBPl)

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Oh, I know.

And the Reddit comment was about people choosing Trump over Kamala.

But, applying the logic to Talarico...especially when Talarico loses by 15.

Holy shit, Democrats have a very interesting situation brewing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 08:59 AM (GBKbO)

283 Crash and burn, semi-attractive Rachel. Crash and burn.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I like her eyes the most. They remind me of my mother.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 11, 2026 08:59 AM (JCZqz)

284 Dems already freaking out about Talarico losing the general in November, I see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 08:56 AM (GBKbO)
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I recommend Democrats spend lots and lots of money on Talarico's race. "Turn Texas Blue!" can only happen if you spend ALL the money in Texas, Democrats.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 08:59 AM (oA3dc)

285 >>“I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.”

LOL, OK.
What got her into trouble was openly disparaging Disney's classic (and first?) animated movies, and bragging that in her version, Snow White would be a girlboss who didn't need a man to save her blah blah blah.

It was never about her comforting her audience, it was about respecting them, respecting the opportunity of playing a beloved character, respecting the original material while giving it a little update instead of completely trashing it.

Go ahead and wear your ignorance and narcissism like a dress and see how far it gets you, Rachel.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2026 08:59 AM (Suwql)

286 JJ, your dear mother's story makes me shed tears every time you mention her, and what a powerful anecdote you shared this morning!

Posted by: AgathaPagatha at March 11, 2026 08:59 AM (zDWkG)

287 Has the country that owns the peninsula that makes up the part of the strait that juts out, ever considered making a canal there, and bypassing the strait entirely? Costly but save everyone headaches.
Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 08:56 AM (Ylesa)

Pretty sure that putting a canal in place somewhere in the ME requires the target country to be a colony of some European power (or the US). I mean, the muzzies have only been in power in Iran for almost 50 years and have repeatedly threatened shipping in the Strait. Who could have foreseen the need?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

288 Seems like nobody has figured out that they likely picked the new Supreme Leader precisely BECAUSE he is practically already dead, and is probably safe in his hospital bed. He's both expendable and untouchable.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 11, 2026 09:00 AM (ovdkm)

289 Dems already freaking out about Talarico losing the general in November, I see.

Nothing brightens my day more than hearing confirmations that Texas will be sending Paxton to Babylon DC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 09:00 AM (a4flb)

290 can only happen if you spend ALL the money in Texas, Democrats."

There's a Buc-ee's right over there. Spend away!

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:01 AM (XuXeR)

291

Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
@Bubblebathgirl
Over 30% or hospice and home health companies in the U.S. are reportedly registered in L.A. County.

Chris Hartsock went to see some in the Valley and found mostly vacant offices.

One man called 911 and attacked him.

Clearly there’s fraud going on here.

https://tinyurl.com/mwmnrfme

Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2026 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

292 'Morning, Horde. It's deja vu all over again. Trump is repeating the mistakes of his first term. Why is he developing feet of clay this time?

Posted by: creeper at March 11, 2026 09:02 AM (80oeU)

293 He's both expendable and untouchable."

You left out "unconscious"

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

294 Farmer friend from Arkansas just told me fertilizer (nitrogen) just spiked up 25% because of Strait closure. It’s planting season, prices will increase at harvest. More farmers will go broke, and food inflation might sink Trump like it did Kamala.

Farmer friend is full of shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2026 09:02 AM (MwdeY)

295 288 Seems like nobody has figured out that they likely picked the new Supreme Leader precisely BECAUSE he is practically already dead, and is probably safe in his hospital bed. He's both expendable and untouchable.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 11, 2026 09:00 AM (ovdkm)

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Most likely, yes.

It's a sign of deep weakness, an invalid, in perception, power structure putting up a figurehead that they can't even put out in public to try and galvanize the people. They can't put forward their actual leadership because the actual leadership is either too ungalvanizing or just too exposed to immediate death from above to have any actual effect.

They're digging in, putting on dog and pony shows that no one buys, to distract. Considering Israel's deep intel dive into Iranian government, though, it's probably useless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:02 AM (GBKbO)

296 Whatever happened to the "Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

That moment in the movie where Gunny Sgt Highway ripped off his earring was awesome... Heartbreak Ridge
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 08:49 AM

That was completely unnecessary.

Posted by: Stitch Jones at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (ZANHd)

297 >>It occurs to me that James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff is angling to replace Susie Wiles as CoS when she leaves in a couple months.

>>If this is the case, someone needs to sit his ass down and have a little talk.

I think people are reading way too much into this. Like it or not Trump is not polling well on the deportation issue right now. The media and Democrats are working overtime to lie and muddy the waters over this issue because losing millions of illegals is an existential problem for the Democrat Party.

We are in the midterm election cycle and the only change is the messaging. Deporting criminal illegals is a lot more popular with the general voting public than mass deportation. Many people don't understand how many of our current problems are related to having millions of illegals in he country draining resources and driving up costs. And they vote.

Win the midterms. That's the goal and you tailor your message to win elections.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (viF8m)

298 Clearly there’s fraud going on here.

https://tinyurl.com/mwmnrfme
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Low hanging fruit for Vance to pick.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

299 Talarico losing will be more satisfying to me than when Beto lost... and that's a lot of satisfaction

Beto was merely an extremely annoying grifting liar; Talarico is a demon

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (xT8gx)

300 The Straight of Hormuz is NOT shut down. Obviously, if it WAS, a ship would not have been hit going through it.

Sounds like the US Navy has some more work to do, as far as making passage through there safer, but at least none of the crew of the vessel that was hit were injured, from anything I heard. Probably what it was hit with wasn't an especially powerful weapon - small-time stuff.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (ovdkm)

301 MrExcitement, Tousi did so yesterday.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (+nEug)

302 Today Is National Debunking Day,
Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2026 08:32 AM (NpAcC)
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Has that been thoroughly debunked yet?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (rCr5m)

303 Has the country that owns the peninsula that makes up the part of the strait that juts out

That's Oman.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2026 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

304 Seems like nobody has figured out that they likely picked the new Supreme Leader precisely BECAUSE he is practically already dead, and is probably safe in his hospital bed. He's both expendable and untouchable.
Posted by: MrExcitement at March 11, 2026 09:00 AM (ovdkm)
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They are going to clone a new one from his nose.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 11, 2026 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

305 Dems are shocked that ordinary Christians see through the viciously warped and demonic false gospel that Talerico preaches.

Democrats believe that all Christians are stupid and will vote for anyone who waves a bible in the air, even if he says it would have been fine for Mary to about her Son. (Yes, Talerico has said that on the record. He is a demon.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 09:04 AM (7yOPh)

306 'Morning, Horde. It's deja vu all over again. Trump is repeating the mistakes of his first term. Why is he developing feet of clay this time?
Posted by: creeper at March 11, 2026 09:02 AM (80oeU)

Do not accept what the media tells you at face value. Do not accept what you read here from people freaking out over what the media told them at face value.

There is literally no indication that Trump is developing feet of clay. It's just words on a screen written by someone with an agenda.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

307
299 Talarico losing will be more satisfying to me than when Beto lost... and that's a lot of satisfaction

Beto was merely an extremely annoying grifting liar; Talarico is a demon

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (xT8gx)

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I want the spectacle of Talarico to distract everyone from GA where Ossoff ends up losing in Georgia.

I mean, incumbency plus the Fulton County election officials having jobs is going to make that harder (plus turnout differentials, it's not all fraud), but I do think it's in the realm of possibility.

And then a couple of great white hopes die on the vine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:05 AM (GBKbO)

308 Farmer friend is full of shit."

So, what's the problem then? That'll fertilize a quarter acre or so...

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

309 Farmer friend is full of shit.

I think that the farmer is supposed to spread that on the fields.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 09:05 AM (a4flb)

310 Three cargo ships damaged by Iranian fire in or near the Straits yesterday, but the shipping markets seem to be taking it in stride. Slowly but surely, America will knock off all those missile or artillery firing sites, whichever is doing it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:05 AM (oA3dc)

311 Seems like nobody has figured out that they likely picked the new Supreme Leader precisely BECAUSE he is practically already dead, and is probably safe in his hospital bed. He's both expendable and untouchable.
Posted by: MrExcitement at March 11, 2026 09:00 AM (ovdkm)
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The actual rulers get to act in his name and blame everything on the "Supreme Leader" when things go horribly, horribly wrong.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2026 09:06 AM (rCr5m)

312 That was completely unnecessary.
Posted by: Stitch Jones at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (ZANHd)

And that was after you tried to get Highway laid in that diner.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

313 Too good of a rumor not to post...

Supposedly Cornyn is listed in the laugh fund for sexually assaulting congress critters.

His money was paid to a man.

This is why the killed that bill.

Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 09:06 AM (pYRPs)

314 That's Oman."

"When the Moon hits your eye....

Hmm. Oman doesn't quite fit.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:06 AM (XuXeR)

315 Slush fund! Not laugh fund.

Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 09:06 AM (pYRPs)

316 Beto was merely an extremely annoying grifting liar; Talarico is a demon
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (xT8gx)

I’m still pissed off at some middle aged Republican women I knew who voted for Beto because he was “so dreamy” and against Ted Cruz because he was Mean and Icky.

At least Talerico just looks like a sad little college twink.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 09:07 AM (7yOPh)

317 Posted by: Stitch Jones "

Get me another Cuban there, Stitch.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

318 300 Sounds like the US Navy has some more work to do, as far as making passage through there safer, but at least none of the crew of the vessel that was hit were injured, from anything I heard. Probably what it was hit with wasn't an especially powerful weapon - small-time stuff.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 11, 2026 09:03 AM (ovdkm)

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The Air Force is just flying over the area hitting smaller targets with impunity.

Plus, the strait is mostly oil to Europe and to China. That does affect global prices, but futures are not buying the idea that this is a massive disruption, especially if Iranian oil is mostly being affected.

It should be noted that Iran's oil industry has taken a few heavy beatings (mostly because the Iranian oil industry is designed to benefit the IRGC more than the people), and that should be affecting futures prices more than a temporary slowdown of traffic through the strait. But that mostly goes to China, which China buys under the radar to avoid Iranian directed sanctions. Iranian oil sold at $30 a barrel to China suddenly getting shut down will have less of an effect than Biden regulations on American oil production.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

319 310 Three cargo ships damaged by Iranian fire in or near the Straits yesterday, but the shipping markets seem to be taking it in stride. Slowly but surely, America will knock off all those missile or artillery firing sites, whichever is doing it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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We went through all that in the 80's during the Iraq-Iran war. Iran tried to shut down Iraqi oil exports and vice versa.

Most people simply believe the current times are the only thing that matters and generally they are ignorant of history.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:08 AM (E4rtv)

320 That's Oman."

"When the Moon hits your eye....

Hmm. Oman doesn't quite fit.
Posted by: man

When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie
That's Omani

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2026 09:08 AM (MwdeY)

321 Dems already freaking out about Talarico losing the general in November, I see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Lol....no.

The Latin Times: James Talarico Beating Both Ken Paxton And John Cornyn In Texas Senate Election, Poll Shows. The Democrat holds a 1-point lead over Paxton and a 2-point one over Cornyn

It's still very early, but if it's that close now, Republicans are scared. If the polls are right, Texans are clearly ready for a fresh voice and real leadership in Washington.

Even magas know Paxton is a slimeball. Talrico has a chance. If Talarico can convince Hispanic voters to show up, he should destroy.

I live in Texas and this election is going to be one for the history books. Republicans have to decide if they’re going to vote for the candidate who is everything they claim to stand for, or the candidate who is everything they claim to hate.

Brace yourselves. All the big money GOP backers are about to go after him in an all out multi-million dollar blitz. There’s think tanks working with focus groups at this very moment to figure out the best lies to sell about him.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2026 09:08 AM (JCZqz)

322 Lisa Murkowski joined with three Democrats yesterday to try to revive the Epstein crap. Unreal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:08 AM (oA3dc)

323 305 Dems are shocked that ordinary Christians see through the viciously warped and demonic false gospel that Talerico preaches.

Democrats believe that all Christians are stupid and will vote for anyone who waves a bible in the air, even if he says it would have been fine for Mary to about her Son. (Yes, Talerico has said that on the record. He is a demon.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 09:04 AM (7yOPh)

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"Christians fall for con men all the time. They'll fall for our con men who say anti-Christian things while holding the Gospel of Thomas, right?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

324 That's Oman.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2026 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

Which already lays claim to that portion of the strait that lies within the 12-nautical mile territorial waters, so I'm not sure why they would dig another ditch.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 09:09 AM (Y1sOo)

325 He's both expendable and untouchable."

You left out "unconscious"
Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:02 AM (XuXeR

I am not sure about the untouchable part...

https://tinyurl.com/5frysyws

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 09:09 AM (GD0B3)

326 300 Sounds like the US Navy has some more work to do, as far as making passage through there safer, but at least none of the crew of the vessel that was hit were injured, from anything I heard. Probably what it was hit with wasn't an especially powerful weapon - small-time stuff.

Posted by: MrExcitement
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A-10s are now in theater and looking for some of those Iranian mine layers and speed boats to blow up real good and they chew up drones pretty well too.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:09 AM (E4rtv)

327 generally they are ignorant of history."

Hey, I used to have an iPhone 7, man. It was tough.

/letsstartgenerationalwarsagain

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

328 310 Three cargo ships damaged by Iranian fire in or near the Straits yesterday, but the shipping markets seem to be taking it in stride. Slowly but surely, America will knock off all those missile or artillery firing sites, whichever is doing it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:05 AM (oA3dc)

Most likely drones. Iran started off with a few thousand in inventory, it will take a while to find and destroy them all.

US forces should take control of the 4 small islands in the straits.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 09:10 AM (7yOPh)

329 279 279 “I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.”

You forget you're in a career that requires people to like you?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

She was born in NJ. Is she trying to run some idiot ploy to make herself look like an illegal to bait a confrontation with ICE?

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2026 09:11 AM (3wOGw)

330 321 Brace yourselves. All the big money GOP backers are about to go after him in an all out multi-million dollar blitz. There’s think tanks working with focus groups at this very moment to figure out the best lies to sell about him.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2026 09:08 AM (JCZqz)

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Oh, I know.

The true believers think he's going to romp them. That PPP internal poll is just fodder, but it's right in one way. Talarico will get no more than 44% of the vote.

Also, the ad blitz is just gonna be Talarico saying stupid shit. The GOP is going to tag him as a weird freak in love with trans kids so fast.

Also, Dems are leaking that they're not going to fund Talarico in the general because they know he's a dud.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

331 "Do not accept what the media tells you at face value. Do not accept what you read here from people freaking out over what the media told them at face value."

Amen.

I think it bears repeating every once in a while, that the media's project is to demoralize Conservatives/Christians...all day...every day.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 11, 2026 09:11 AM (DgMqy)

332 326 A-10s are now in theater and looking for some of those Iranian mine layers and speed boats to blow up real good and they chew up drones pretty well too.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:09 AM (E4rtv)

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Also, you can't just lay mines with speed boats. Mines have to be anchored in place and need specialized equipment to deploy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:12 AM (GBKbO)

333 322 Lisa Murkowski joined with three Democrats yesterday to try to revive the Epstein crap. Unreal.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Nope, she is essentially a Democrat now and wants to hold her seat in a fairly Republican state. All bullshit, all the time and I think the relevations about the fake Indian tribe scams with government contracting including an Alaskan tribe just revealed by O'Keefe is probably going to leave a mark.

Murcow stays in office in part because of grifters in the Indian tribes up there.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:12 AM (E4rtv)

334 Pretty sure that putting a canal in place somewhere in the ME requires the target country to be a colony of some European power (or the US). I mean, the muzzies have only been in power in Iran for almost 50 years and have repeatedly threatened shipping in the Strait. Who could have foreseen the need?
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Just thinking out loud, but what is the risk of building a canal to avoid the strait and causing the strait to silt out?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 11, 2026 09:13 AM (pZ64F)

335 It looks like Trump has had second thoughts about asking Paxton to drop out of the runoff, a bad idea that Thune was pushing. That would have just pissed off the base in Texas.
Stay out of it, Trump.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 09:14 AM (7yOPh)

336 Also, you can't just lay mines with speed boats. Mines have to be anchored in place and need specialized equipment to deploy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Poorly phrased, the speed boat clusters were a separate threat as Iranian tactics go along with mine laying. If you want sheer mayhem though, you can float mines rather than anchor them simply to raise risk levels. Mine fields are mainly defensive, floating mines without tethering is offensive designed to cause FUD.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:14 AM (E4rtv)

337 335 It looks like Trump has had second thoughts about asking Paxton to drop out of the runoff, a bad idea that Thune was pushing. That would have just pissed off the base in Texas.
Stay out of it, Trump.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 09:14 AM (7yOPh)

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100%, the early word of Trump backing Cornyn was Cornyn himself spreading the rumor, that Trump never considered it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:14 AM (GBKbO)

338 "This guidance arises from worries that Democrats are effectively painting Trump’s immigration approach as excessively sweeping,"

And they couldn't have seen this coming 100 miles away and have prepared a proactive, aggressive counter-propaganda and for once, just once, acted like they knew their asses from their elbows about the Left and its clockwork lies and slanders?

Same wobbly shit we've seen under every Republican administration in my lifetime.

As if the only possible response is to moderate and/or emasculate your own righteous policy rather than effectively fight back.

My concern is that if Iran goes on to much longer we'll be seeing the same thing on this front.

My sense of the source of all of it? Susie Wiles.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 11, 2026 09:15 AM (E2lD7)

339 A-10s are now in theater and looking for some of those Iranian mine layers and speed boats to blow up real good and they chew up drones pretty well too.
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They really like popping armored vehicles.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 11, 2026 09:15 AM (pZ64F)

340 Lisa Murkowski joined with three Democrats yesterday to try to revive the Epstein crap. Unreal.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:08 AM (oA3dc)
*******
I don't care what it takes. This woman has got to go. She cannot get reelected.
I hope Elon puts all his money into getting ousted. She has been a thorn in Trump's side and for that matter the Republican's side since she's been in office.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

341 Also, you can't just lay mines with speed boats. "

I know, mini subs! It's sooper easy, too. Just roll 'em down the beach...

Oh, wait.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:16 AM (XuXeR)

342 335 It looks like Trump has had second thoughts about asking Paxton to drop out of the runoff, a bad idea that Thune was pushing. That would have just pissed off the base in Texas.
Stay out of it, Trump.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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And that is why Trump is better than alternatives, he apparently listens to his voters unlike US GOP senators.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:16 AM (E4rtv)

343 336 Also, you can't just lay mines with speed boats. Mines have to be anchored in place and need specialized equipment to deploy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Poorly phrased, the speed boat clusters were a separate threat as Iranian tactics go along with mine laying. If you want sheer mayhem though, you can float mines rather than anchor them simply to raise risk levels. Mine fields are mainly defensive, floating mines without tethering is offensive designed to cause FUD.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:14 AM (E4rtv)

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Unanchored mines would just end up on shore.

And the Air Force is just plastering anything that looks remotely unfriendly along the Iranian shores of the strait. Speed boat size and up.

Iran has no way of enforcing their threat, and everyone knows it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

344 people are digging into that "school" strike , the school that was part of the IRGC base...now, prior to the US / Israeli operation Iranians inside iran warned that the regime was collecting bodies of the people they murdered on the streets, to later present them as victims of "US aggression".

and now this : "Another important fact about the “Minab school fatalities” list:

• 19 of the 26 listed school-age girls appear in the archived school birthday directory.
• Only 2 of the 25 boys do..."

This is yet another strong indication that the list is either partially fabricated or includes deaths unrelated to the school strike."

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 09:16 AM (GD0B3)

345 Just thinking out loud, but what is the risk of building a canal to avoid the strait and causing the strait to silt out?

The problem when you Single Source anything, the lone supplier can change the terms and what are you going to do?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 09:17 AM (a6PrB)

346 > Also, you can't just lay mines with speed boats. Mines have to be anchored in place and need specialized equipment to deploy.
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Some of them are free floating magnetic types. Old school like. But a lot of the mines Iran is sowing in the Hormuz are anchored in the known shipping lanes.

Plus, if they've got some sort of timer used to activate and deactivate they can be reclaimed, moved and used again if they've got the right gear.

It's a mess. Destroy the delivery vehicles (ships or aircraft capable of laying mines) to minimize the threat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 09:17 AM (jtM2q)

347 Just thinking out loud, but what is the risk of building a canal to avoid the strait and causing the strait to silt out?
Posted by: pudinhead at March 11, 2026 09:13 AM (pZ64F)

Oman would be forced to accept more fees for using the canal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

348 regime lies 24/7, 365, many times a day; unfortunately their boosters in the West are running interference, spreading disinformation

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 09:17 AM (GD0B3)

349 Read how the Marxists are fighting any ICE at polling places yet say not Illegals are voting
Posted by: Skip

You're rayciss, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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They should dress as Black Panthers. All cool then.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 11, 2026 09:18 AM (XvL8K)

350 Ask Palin about the Murkowski Crime Family.

Posted by: davidt at March 11, 2026 09:18 AM (Q+gd/)

351
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Just thinking out loud, but what is the risk of building a canal to avoid the strait and causing the strait to silt out?
Posted by: pudinhead at March 11, 2026 09:13 AM (pZ64F)

There’s a mountainous ridge a couple thousand feet high in the way. And I don’t think trying to do a Fitzcarraldo with a modern oil tanker is advisable.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2026 09:18 AM (7yOPh)

352 Iran has been blackmailing the world for 47 years. We finally have a POTUS that is willing to put a stop to it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 11, 2026 09:18 AM (qFwJc)

353 Murk was kept in office by a combination of Mitch and the GOPe and Dem money pushing for ranked choice and and jungle primaries. Alaska even with Indian fraud should be solid red

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 09:18 AM (qBBPl)

354 Just thinking out loud, but what is the risk of building a canal to avoid the strait and causing the strait to silt out?
Posted by: pudinhead
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Well, in a world of drones and missiles, you cannot maneveur a ship in a canal. And a sunk ship means that the canal is closed for a long while. So sitting ducks requiring a lot of defensive anti missile and drone defenses . The problem is Iran's regime, not the Strait.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:18 AM (E4rtv)

355 Poorly phrased, the speed boat clusters were a separate threat as Iranian tactics go along with mine laying. If you want sheer mayhem though, you can float mines rather than anchor them simply to raise risk levels. Mine fields are mainly defensive, floating mines without tethering is offensive designed to cause FUD.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:14 AM (E4rtv)

https://tinyurl.com/yc6b2d7v

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 09:19 AM (Y1sOo)

356 Same wobbly shit we've seen under every Republican administration in my lifetime.

They literally haven't changed any policies. None. They're just saying to talk about it differently.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

357 New Supreme Leader makes an appearance. Kind of.

https://is.gd/Lms75v

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 11, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7)

358 356 Same wobbly shit we've seen under every Republican administration in my lifetime.

They literally haven't changed any policies. None. They're just saying to talk about it differently.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

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Talking about it differently means that all the illegals deported are going to be welcomed back by Trump personally and given citizenship!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

359 Nastasia Bertrand, the Democrat whore mouthpiece, has a report up at CNN claiming Iran is "laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz". She claims this aspiration is real "without evidence".

But the larger point is Democrats want the Trump-led effort to fail. So what if Trump's effort will finally end the Mullahs and usher in peace in the middle east, and so what if even Qatar is finally ending Hamas presence, and declaring peace with Israel.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:20 AM (2h5OL)

360 359 Nastasia Bertrand, the Democrat whore mouthpiece, has a report up at CNN claiming Iran is "laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz". She claims this aspiration is real "without evidence".

But the larger point is Democrats want the Trump-led effort to fail. So what if Trump's effort will finally end the Mullahs and usher in peace in the middle east, and so what if even Qatar is finally ending Hamas presence, and declaring peace with Israel.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:20 AM (2h5OL)

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Her report is not that they are doing it.

Her report is that they are thinking about doing it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

361 They literally haven't changed any policies. None.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

Yet. How you talk about it is always the first step.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 11, 2026 09:20 AM (E2lD7)

362 New Supreme Leader makes an appearance. Kind of.

https://is.gd/Lms75v
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Weekend at Khameini's.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2026 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

363 New Supreme Leader makes an appearance. Kind of.

https://is.gd/Lms75v
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 11, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7)
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That is hilarious

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:21 AM (2h5OL)

364 Unanchored mines would just end up on shore.

And the Air Force is just plastering anything that looks remotely unfriendly along the Iranian shores of the strait. Speed boat size and up.

Iran has no way of enforcing their threat, and everyone knows it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Sometimes they do, but the sheer volume is what is aimed at and those type mines can be released from shore which is important in this case as formal minelayers probably are not going to last very long trying to do something in the gulf.

FWIW, a funny Dad's Army episode deals with mines in WWII.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:21 AM (E4rtv)

365 361 They literally haven't changed any policies. None.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

Yet. How you talk about it is always the first step.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 11, 2026 09:20 AM (E2lD7)

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The only thing that will change immigration policy is firing Stephen Miller.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

366 I just watched Melania and it was hard to get thru. These people live in a different world, not the real world, but I guess it's real to them.

Melania is a 10, full stop. High maintenance.

It's all public relations, and mostly propaganda. You don't see her cooking breakfast for the young lad, or perched up on the throne cranking out a growler.

Interesting stuff. I have a staff of one and I'm chewing a piece of beef jerky.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 11, 2026 09:22 AM (M9gjJ)

367 363 New Supreme Leader makes an appearance. Kind of.

https://is.gd/Lms75v
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 11, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7)

He looks kind of stiff... From what I heard, it will be the first time...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 09:22 AM (VE6XX)

368 Her report is not that they are doing it.

Her report is that they are thinking about doing it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:20 AM (GBKbO)
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Her headline is literally "Iran Begins Laying Mines In Straits Of Hormuz"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:22 AM (2h5OL)

369 What was in the cardboard box they made the cutout from?

Posted by: davidt at March 11, 2026 09:22 AM (Q+gd/)

370 CNN is severely compromised, they have access to Iran and are literally reporting the Regime's talking points.

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 09:22 AM (GD0B3)

371 364 Sometimes they do, but the sheer volume is what is aimed at and those type mines can be released from shore which is important in this case as formal minelayers probably are not going to last very long trying to do something in the gulf.

FWIW, a funny Dad's Army episode deals with mines in WWII.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:21 AM (E4rtv)

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1. The report was that Iran was thinking about it, not actually doing it.

2. Our air supremacy is knocking out anything larger than a dinghy along the Iranian shore.

The mining isn't happening. Tankers are making it through. It's all an effort to try and drive up oil prices again by foreign actors (the US press).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

372 Posted by: Huck Follywood

Natasha and Fusion Ken Dilenian along with Jennifer Griffin at Fox are prime sources for disinformation put out by dissenters in our nat sec community. I think Ace used to have a name for Natasha but can't honestly remember.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:23 AM (E4rtv)

373 New Supreme Leader makes an appearance. Kind of.

https://is.gd/Lms75v
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 11, 2026 09:19 AM (ndZc7)

He looks kind of stiff... From what I heard, it will be the first time...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 09:22 AM (VE6XX)

🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 09:23 AM (GD0B3)

374 368 Her report is not that they are doing it.

Her report is that they are thinking about doing it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:20 AM (GBKbO)
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Her headline is literally "Iran Begins Laying Mines In Straits Of Hormuz"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:22 AM (2h5OL)

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Oh, the headline doesn't match the actual article?

Probably the first time in history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

375 Sometimes they do, but the sheer volume is what is aimed at "

That may be their goal, but they simply don't have the volume available to carry out anything like that - and one can't just roll them off of a pier and expect sucess.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:24 AM (XuXeR)

376 >>At least Talerico just looks like a sad little college twink.

There's something off about that guy.
Kinda reminds me of Buttigeig, who's always seemed a little angry to me?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2026 09:24 AM (Suwql)

377 Yet. How you talk about it is always the first step.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 11, 2026 09:20 AM (E2lD7)

Well... historically, the way it's worked is that the GOP has talked tough and done fuck all - if we're lucky. Now... we're still deporting people, we've sped up deporting people, we've gotten the judges removed from preventing deporting people, and we're saying specifically talk about deporting criminals and whatnot.

Obviously, mass suicide is in order.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

378 who's always seemed a little angry to me?"

"A little angry" is his nickname for...well....

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:25 AM (XuXeR)

379 370 CNN is severely compromised, they have access to Iran and are literally reporting the Regime's talking points.
Posted by: runner

Same as Iraq in the Gulf Wars. CNN is agit prop and deserves a swift death in the future after the merger but I'd imagine that it will be merged with CBS News in some kind of arrangement.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:25 AM (E4rtv)

380 IRAN IS LAYING MIMES IN HORMUZ!

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 09:25 AM (GD0B3)

381 Pam Bondi is the latest Cabinet member to be forced to move into military base housing, after Democrat threats on her life. That makes at least four I believe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:25 AM (2h5OL)

382 And now, a word from Gabby Abby.

Greg Price
@greg_price11
CNN's Abby Phillip claims that the attempted NYC bombing was "an attempted terror attack against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani."

The suspects were two Muslim terrorists who pledged allegiance to ISIS and were targeting anti-Islam protesters.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 11, 2026 09:25 AM (ndZc7)

383 Re: The 140 Casualties:

Per a quote midway through the article:
"Parnell stressed that most of these wounds are not serious, and 108 troops have already resumed their roles." Took a second read-through to find that there have been 7 service members who passed in the line of duty, and it calls out the attack within Kuwait specifically.

When we hear "casualty", we think dead bodies. Breaking down into wounded and dead for the headline would have been better. Right now, it looks like they're playing Motte and Bailey with the language.

Posted by: Another Anon at March 11, 2026 09:25 AM (4h45B)

384 >>CNN is severely compromised, they have access to Iran and are literally reporting the Regime's talking points.

Interesting.
Sadly, not surprising.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2026 09:26 AM (Suwql)

385 I enjoy coming to AoS to read what the experts here who have never served a day in the military tell us what is and what isn't possible.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 09:26 AM (Y1sOo)

386 Just thinking out loud, but what is the risk of building a canal to avoid the strait and causing the strait to silt out?
Posted by: pudinhead at March 11, 2026 09:13 AM (pZ64F)

Eh, just neutron bomb the shit out of it. It will get quiet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 11, 2026 09:26 AM (snZF9)

387 osted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

Good points. I hope for nothing more than to be wrong. But I can't deny a certain conditioned paranoia.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 11, 2026 09:27 AM (E2lD7)

388 "The ‘Cardboard Ayatollah’ meme era has officially begun."

https://tinyurl.com/2a8dct4t

Posted by: redridinghood at March 11, 2026 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

389 Bertrand is a leftist deep state stenographer

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 09:27 AM (qBBPl)

390 382 And now, a word from Gabby Abby.

Greg Price
@greg_price11
CNN's Abby Phillip claims that the attempted NYC bombing was "an attempted terror attack against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani."

The suspects were two Muslim terrorists who pledged allegiance to ISIS and were targeting anti-Islam protesters.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 11, 2026 09:25 AM (ndZc7)

Her job isn't to report the truth.

It's to tell her audience what they want to hear.

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2026 09:27 AM (3wOGw)

391 385 I enjoy coming to AoS to read what the experts here who have never served a day in the military tell us what is and what isn't possible.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 09:26 AM (Y1sOo)

I come here to ask about things I don't know and have been pleased, for the most part, with the answers

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 09:28 AM (VE6XX)

392 376 >>At least Talerico just looks like a sad little college twink.

There's something off about that guy.
Kinda reminds me of Buttigeig, who's always seemed a little angry to me?
Posted by: Lizzy
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Because unlike the msm propaganda, most gay males were introduced to gaydom by older gays--they weren't born this way and some come from being physically abused. Same as an astounding percentage of lesbians were sexually or physically abused.

And that is why you get a very high domestic violence quotient from lesbian relationships and an insatiable body count and domestic violence among male gays with marriage not being a bar in any way to pursuit of ass.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:28 AM (E4rtv)

393 But I can't deny a certain conditioned paranoia.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 11, 2026 09:27 AM (E2lD7)

They have spent decades building that paranoia into you. Be watchful but deny them your essence. -- General Ripper

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

394 I enjoy coming to AoS to read what the experts here who have never served a day in the military tell us what is and what isn't possible."

Why, you're welcome.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:28 AM (XuXeR)

395 >>I come here to ask about things I don't know and have been pleased, for the most part, with the answers

Even if the answers are wrong?

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 09:29 AM (Y1sOo)

396 Greg Price
@greg_price11
CNN's Abby Phillip claims that the attempted NYC bombing was "an attempted terror attack against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani."

The suspects were two Muslim terrorists who pledged allegiance to ISIS and were targeting anti-Islam protesters.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 11, 2026 09:25 AM (ndZc7)
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This is a desperate effort by Propagandists desperate to protect their narrative. It's amazing they even try.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2026 09:30 AM (2h5OL)

397
Even if the answers are wrong?
Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 09:29 AM (Y1sOo)

I find that if they are wrong there are plenty here to correct it..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 09:30 AM (VE6XX)

398 That would be the DOJ who I'm told isn't arresting anyone.

>>@SDCAnews
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17h
>>More than 50 Charged in Thefts of Millions of Dollars in California Benefits for Low-Income Families

Posted by: JackStraw at March 11, 2026 09:30 AM (viF8m)

399 Nood. Art with obvious caption.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

400 385 I enjoy coming to AoS to read what the experts here who have never served a day in the military tell us what is and what isn't possible.
Posted by: one hour sober
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Welp, I did my stint during the First Gulf War, albeit in the AF. Most things are possible if you are willing to take risks of loss in warfare, just like politics.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 09:30 AM (E4rtv)

401 Even if the answers are wrong?"

Well bless your heart.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 09:30 AM (XuXeR)

402 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2026 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

403 I'll repeat my concern about Susie Wiles. She's the dummkopf who solicited the embarrassing photo spread hit piece by Vanity Fair.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 11, 2026 09:31 AM (E2lD7)

404 380 IRAN IS LAYING MIMES IN HORMUZ!
Posted by: runner

The mimes' spokesman had no comment.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 09:32 AM (Dv3i1)

405 >>CNN's Abby Phillip claims that the attempted NYC bombing was "an attempted terror attack against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani."

Just another way to frame that the biggest victim in the latest muslim terror attack is a muslim.

They are always the victim.
That's the script.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2026 09:32 AM (Suwql)

406 Welp, I did my stint during the First Gulf War, albeit in the AF. Most things are possible if you are willing to take risks of loss in warfare, just like politics.

******

Flying out of Masirah, Oman, I have 19 combat missions over the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq Tanker War during Earnest Will.

Want to compare notes on Iranian naval activity in the Persain Gulf?

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 09:33 AM (Y1sOo)

407 Yeah, I didn't think so.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 09:36 AM (Y1sOo)

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